Born Quote by Hugo Chavez

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

— Sushma Swaraj

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

— Anonymous

When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a…

— Kofi Annan

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

— Maxime Bernier

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

The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

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

The U.N. is biggest platform for all nations. But slowly, its significance, effect, dignity, and use is being reduced. We should worry that we…

— Sushma Swaraj

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan,…

— Linda Chavez

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful,…

— Charles Krauthammer

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

— Sam Farr