People Quote by Kofi Annan

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 U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

— Maxime Bernier

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

— Hugo Chavez

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

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve…

— Margaret Chan

...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

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

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

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

— Gordon Smith

The United Nations has an irreplaceable role in dealing with global issues. While other international bodies play important roles, the U.N. is the only…

— Miroslav Lajcak

Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the…

— Samantha Power

I have often said that we have two UNs; the UN that is a Secretariat, that implements the mandates handed over to it by…

— Kofi Annan