Admitting Quote by Jon Stewart

When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that…

— Kofi Annan

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something…

— Kofi Annan

“There is no force in the world equal to the U.N. to bring resources and expertise to people in crisis.”

— R. Quejas-Risdon

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

— Anonymous

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

— Gordon Smith

I really don't want to live in a world where the U.N. will not be relevant, will not be seen as the enterprise we…

— Miroslav Lajcak

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

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

— Walter Cronkite

It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights…

— Antonio Guterres

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and…

— John Bolton

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we…

— William Odom

“Whenever disaster strikes around the world, America is one of the first nations to offer up people and other resources to help.”

— John Dreese