Acting Quote by Sergei Lavrov

Many countries did not share the same interests as the West in institutions like the U.N.; in fact, they mostly opposed and formed coalitions…

— Anna Paulina Luna

“Whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, the Western conception of human rights is really about the practices of other states--but never…

— Mark Gibney

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be…

— Jonah Goldberg

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security…

— Vladimir Putin

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first…

— Bashar al-Assad

“In a way, this judgment has taken forward the jurisprudential strategy in Vishaka of reading into our constitutional law the global concepts of human…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

The advancement of democracy and human rights is as serious a business as anything we do in our foreign policy and cannot be treated…

— Tom Malinowski

The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional and indispensable'…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“As long as the United States remains a democracy, I want to be in the ideological fight against illiberal nationalism and continue to make…

— Michael McFaul

“Let me spell out the facts so even you can understand: your country, the good ol’ U. S. of A., sets itself up as…

— Valerie Wilcox

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