United nations Quotes

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

— Kofi Annan

I worked at the United Nations.

— Hannah Simone

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

— Federica Mogherini

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

— Susan Rice

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

“The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.

— Goran Persson

There's no such thing as the United Nations,

— John Bolton

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

— Elliott Abrams

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

— Michelle Bachelet

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

— Sun Myung Moon

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

“United Nations cannot bring peace, only united humans can.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Dean Acheson

Since the shock of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's death, I have been reflecting on what made him so special. To…

— Antonio Guterres

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations…

— John Eisenhower

“Pierre J. Huss pleased me with his comment: "Thanks to him (Romulo) the United Nations has 'independence' in its Charter, one of…

— Carlos P. Romulo

In Syria, while secretary of state, Clinton watched as United Nations resolution after U.N. resolution failed. She accomplished nothing except to repeat…

— Keith Kellogg

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good…

— Ken Mehlman

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I…

— Peter T. King

“Did the International Committee of the Red Cross know anything about this? Did the United States? The UN? Yes, yes, and yes.…

— Masaji Ishikawa

I have often said that we have two UNs; the UN that is a Secretariat, that implements the mandates handed over to…

— Kofi Annan

The General Assembly is a unique organ. It's the most representative organ of the United Nations, where all 193 Member States are…

— Miroslav Lajcak

The United Nations is calling this the decade of action, from 2020 to 2030, because if we don't take immense action, there…

— Aidan Gallagher

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been…

— Julian Assange

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United…

— Walter Cronkite

Look at the global warming issue. Why are the left so angry? They appear to be getting everything they want. The Pope's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before…

— Bono

I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the…

— Jay Leno

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong

Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.…

— L. Neil Smith

The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative…

— Vladimir Putin

The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America…

— William J. Clinton

We know that Russia has done things that are very much against our interests. They've done things that require us to take…

— Ben Cardin

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was…

— John Gimlette

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day…

— Christopher Hitchens

The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world…

— Nelson Rockefeller