Department Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because…

— Kofi Annan

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in…

— Bashar al-Assad

We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic…

— Antonio Guterres

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country…

— Ted Turner

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

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

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled…

— Nikki Haley

My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to…

— Paul Kagame

“you know how I feel about the United Nations. From the beginning, it’s functioned as a one-world-order organization whose sole function is to look…

— Anonymous

There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick…

— Kofi Annan

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 UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I…

— Mary Robinson