America Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to…

— Richard Holbrooke

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is…

— Vladimir Putin

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live…

— Kofi Annan

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those…

— Norman Cousins

Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the…

— Samantha Power

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit…

— John Bolton