United nations Quotes · Page 3

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

— Harri Holkeri

“The United Nations had to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy.”

— Joseph P. Lash

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

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.

— Thom Tillis

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you.

— Nadia Ali

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have…

— Condoleezza Rice

According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a…

— Barry Sanders

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an…

— Hans Kung

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against…

— Omar Bongo

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is…

— Shirley Temple

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people…

— Emily Deschanel

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations…

— Jenny Shipley

There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

— Goran Persson

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores,…

— John T. Flynn

“At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground,…

— Heidi Postlewait

President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now…

— Russell Pearce

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based…

— Mahmoud Abbas

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which…

— Charles Krauthammer

I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited…

— Ban Ki-moon

The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We…

— G. Edward Griffin

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you…

— Yasser Arafat

When we talk about the UN, what are we really talking about? We are talking about my country, your country, other countries…

— Kofi Annan

The United States was the one nullifying any attempt in the Security Council of the United Nations to sanction those fascist governments,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,…

— Julian Assange

“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is…

— Stephen Lewis

God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime…

— Pat Robertson

The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration…

— Colin Powell

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.…

— Terry Teachout

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.…

— Wangari Maathai

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought

— Shirley Temple

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

— Pauline Frederick

The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations

— Kofi Annan

“Someone had to show them there was more to life than constant war, that was my mission.”

— R. Quejas-Risdon

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.

— Esther B Fein

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

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

— Ralph Bunche

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

— Kofi Annan