All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other side as…

— Michael Shellenberger

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

— Frank Carson

One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

— Vladimir Putin

Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

— Samuel Logan Brengle

When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep…

— John F. Street

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only…

— Kofi Annan

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas.…

— Mike Jackson

Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard…

— Norman Foster

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and…

— Colin Powell

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long…

— Hans Blix

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding…

— Michael McCaul

The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I…

— Lawrence Wilkerson

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee…

— Nawal El Saadawi

All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled…

— James Cross Giblin