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But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much. -- Hans Blix
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council. -- Maureen Forrester
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement. -- George Carey
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. -- Herbert Hoover
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith -- Orson Pratt
Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. -- Michelle Obama
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. -- Chanakya
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. -- Jonathan Franzen
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on. -- Harri Holkeri
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy. -- Dick Cheney
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. -- Charles Tupper
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. -- Maurice Strong
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life. -- Lee Haney
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. -- Colin Powell
The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. -- Noam Chomsky
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration. -- Pope Francis
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability. -- Anna Lindh
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization. -- Vladimir Putin
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. -- Charles Krauthammer
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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 Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
Good council has no price. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Office of the Vice President... The Council on Competativeness. -- Dan Quayle
I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. -- Richard Attenborough
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. -- Howard Gordon
I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005. -- Christine Pelosi
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. -- Jim Butcher
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. -- Mary Doria Russell
Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting. -- Benjamin Franklin
[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head! -- Elizabeth I
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. -- Richard Adams
Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. -- Li Zhaoxing
President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. -- Neville Marriner
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it. -- Karen Kain
To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council. -- Kofi Annan
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. -- Dora Russell
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy. -- Ali Larijani
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. -- Anatoly Chubais
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country. -- Jack Kelley
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. -- Kofi Annan
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. -- Pope John XXIII
I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action. -- Paul Weller
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. -- Germaine Greer
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. -- Mason Cooley
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice. -- Alex Morrison
I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council. -- Natalie Massenet
I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles -- Jim Butcher
I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council. -- Robert Davi
If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment. -- Ali Larijani
I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music. -- Michael Longley
People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up. -- Ralph Nader
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion. -- Oscar de la Renta
Cool," I said. "You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework. -- Richelle Mead
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. -- Jose Maria Aznar
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. -- Jose Maria Aznar
Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council. -- Ivica Dacic
When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA. -- Condoleezza Rice
The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning. -- Thabo Mbeki
As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. -- Jim Butcher
Whatever the Clave was discussing, the Council meeting was dragging on brutally late. â??But he knows New York. He doesnâ??t know Alicanteâ?? -- Cassandra Clare
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. -- Bela Kun
The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international law. -- Vladimir Putin
The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles. -- Barton Gellman
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. -- Igor Ivanov
You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state. -- Khaled Hosseini
We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council. -- Vladimir Putin
The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. -- Oliver North
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message. -- Riyad Mansour
The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established. -- Carroll Quigley
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility. -- Javier Solana
It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display. -- J. C. R. Licklider
Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain. -- Martin Schulz
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world. -- Pratibha Patil
The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it. -- Dan Smoot
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. -- Michael McCaul
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. -- Michael McCaul
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council. -- Kofi Annan
The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council." -- Charles Tupper
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy. -- Kofi Annan
If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it. -- Sal Albanese
From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council. -- Dan Gillerman
I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council. -- George Brandis
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world. -- Israel Shenker
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers. -- Martin Luther
I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source. -- John F. Kennedy
The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point. -- Pope John Paul II
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so. -- Spencer Abraham
Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own." Yeah." Good. It's more familiar. -- Jim Butcher
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council. -- Vladimir Putin
My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon. -- Cesar Milstein
The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas. -- Jean-Claude Trichet
The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises. -- Elliott Abrams
This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too. -- Bobby Knight
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever. -- Timothy West
My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public. -- Paula Broadwell
When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya. -- Sergei Lavrov
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons. -- John Burroughs
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition. -- Ban Ki-moon
Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council. But if that were to happen Iran is not afraid. -- Hamid-Reza Assefi
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. -- Timothy West
They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear. -- Mike Jackson
I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead. -- Alexander Stoddart
Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations. -- Moshe Katsav
Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena. -- Anna Lindh
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. -- William Scranton
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. -- Alex J. Morrison

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