Challenges Quote by Miroslav Lajcak

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, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for…

— Goran Persson

Indeed, it is a common goal to create a stronger United Nations able to meet the multitude of expectations placed upon it. To that…

— Miroslav Lajcak

The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for…

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

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

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law…

— Maurice Strong

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant…

— Chuck Hagel

“you know how I feel about the United Nations. From the beginning, it’s functioned as a one-world-order organization whose sole function is to look…

— Anonymous

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is…

— John Foster Dulles

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III…

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr

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