United Nations Quotes

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.