Advantage Quote by Fredrik Bajer

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings…

— Fredrik Bajer

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special…

— Ludwig Quidde

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference…

— Fredrik Bajer

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other…

— Charles Albert Gobat

International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension…

— Ian Bremmer

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else.…

— Will Rogers

Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not…

— Robert Kennedy

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the…

— James Madison

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well…

— Alexander Hamilton

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

— Maxime Bernier

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

— Will Rogers

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not…

— Jonathan Sacks