Council Quote by Vladimir Putin

For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and…

— Sergei Lavrov

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we…

— Vladimir Putin

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long…

— Hans Blix

“United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureaucrats and politicians through cyberspace and other means to put…

— Amit Ray

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy,…

— Angela Merkel

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world…

— Robert Foster Bennett

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

— Lech Walesa

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

— Marc Morano

We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

— H. R. McMaster

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

— Federica Mogherini

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

— Gordon Smith

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

— Vladimir Putin