Vacuums Quote by Kofi Annan Download Open image “The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.” — Kofi Annan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vacuums
My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Imagine if we didn't have a President traveling the world bad mouthing America....that's the UN's job. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum. — David Titley Copy Share Image
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition. — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
