Country Quote by Henri La Fontaine

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life…

— Samantha Power

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

— U Thant

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

— Samantha Power

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

— Arthur Henderson

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

— Jose Saramago

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

— Abraham Lincoln

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

— Mo Ibrahim

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass