Action Quote by Kofi Annan

The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

— Winnie Byanyima

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But…

— Noam Chomsky

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

— Dick Morris

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type…

— Mao Zedong

The U.N. was created for people.

— Miroslav Lajcak

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

The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common…

— Shashi Tharoor

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

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban…

— Wayne LaPierre

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal…

— Shashi Tharoor

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

— R. Quejas-Risdon