quotes about United Nations
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The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
-- Anthony ZinniSource : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 15, 2007.
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The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
-- Barbara HepworthSource : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
-- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
-- Cliff Stearns -
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We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
The United Nations has no business in our elections.
-- David Vitter -
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
-- Dean Acheson -
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
-- Elliott AbramsSource : "Joining the Jackals". www.weeklystandard.com. June 2, 2010.
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UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.
-- Federico Mayor Zaragoza -
The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
-- Gillian Sorensen -
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
-- Harri Holkeri -
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We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.
-- Jimmy Carter -
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
-- John Foster Dulles -
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
-- Kevin Rudd -
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I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
-- Kojo AnnanSource : "Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt'" by Jeff Koinange, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2004.
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The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
-- Ralph Bunche -
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
-- Ralph Bunche -
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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.
-- S. R. Nathan -
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.
-- Susan Rice -
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien -
I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.
-- Mahathir MohamadSource : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
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