Focus Quote by Antonio Guterres

The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient, and effective.

— Antonio Guterres

We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.

— Goran Persson

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

— Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is…

— John Foster Dulles

The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources,…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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

— Michelle Bachelet

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer…

— Paul Cellucci

It is now widely and rightly accepted that we live in a world which is more interdependent than ever before, and that problems are…

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

— Stephen Lewis

The United Nations is here to provide global guidance and also to help with global frameworks and to set the policies right. But then,…

— Miroslav Lajcak

The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

— Winnie Byanyima

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable,…

— Roméo Dallaire