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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. -- Kofi Annan
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. -- Ralph Bunche
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. -- Norman Cousins
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. -- Kofi Annan
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. -- Wavy Gravy
There's no such thing as the United Nations, -- John Bolton
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. -- Harry S Truman
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. -- Dean Acheson
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? -- 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 United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. -- Kofi Annan
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy. -- Kofi Annan
I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most. -- Angelina Jolie
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. -- Shirley Temple
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good -- John Foster Dulles
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. -- Dag Hammarskjold
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization. -- 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 is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013. -- Malala Yousafzai
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us. -- John Perkins
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Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself. -- Bjork
There is no such thing as the United Nations. -- John Bolton
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. -- Harry S Truman
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small. -- Nikita Khrushchev
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. -- Yitzhak Shamir
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
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. -- John Foster Dulles
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. -- Chuck Hagel
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. -- Robert MacNeil
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
Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world. -- Ban Ki-moon
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things. -- Ban Ki-moon
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part. -- Margaret Chan
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. -- Paul Cellucci
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. -- Ban Ki-moon
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge. -- Ban Ki-moon
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. -- Haile Selassie
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
The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation. -- Ban Ki-moon
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. -- Vladimir Putin
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights. -- Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries. -- Ban Ki-moon
UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations. -- Federico Mayor Zaragoza
The United Nations has no business in our elections. -- David Vitter
I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations. -- Betty Hill
We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal. -- David Ben-Gurion
The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace -- Gillian Sorensen
The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do. -- Anthony Zinni
I was very happy in my job at the United Nations. -- Susan Rice
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man. -- Haile Selassie
The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines. -- Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations! -- Ezra Taft Benson
The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner. -- Kofi Annan
The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. -- Michelle Bachelet
...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues. -- John McCain
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations. -- Nong ?uc Manh
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations. -- Nong ?uc Manh
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. -- Cliff Stearns
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. -- Kevin Rudd
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. -- Elliott Abrams
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. -- Elliott Abrams
I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations. -- Kojo Annan
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. -- George H. W. Bush
I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons. -- Kojo Annan
The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua. -- Bernard Dowiyogo
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. -- Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. -- John E. Rankin
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. -- Harri Holkeri
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. -- Jesse Helms
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology. -- Ralph Bunche
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. -- Mason Cooley
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. -- Michael Scott
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I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations. -- Al Gore
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell. -- Winston Churchill
I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues. -- Alex J. Morrison
It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations. -- Vladimir Putin
Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force? -- Kent Hovind
Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night. -- Pauline Frederick
Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, -- Evo Morales
I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations. -- John F. Kerry
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. -- Barbara Hepworth
The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion. -- Haile Selassie
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance. -- George H. W. Bush
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself. -- Kofi Annan
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. -- Vernon A. Walters
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations. -- John F. Kerry
The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N. -- Harold Wallace Rosenthal
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. -- Richard Holbrooke
We really don't need the United Nations approval to act. When it comes to our security, we do not need anyones permission. -- George W. Bush
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] -- John F. Kennedy
Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations? -- Robert Mugabe
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play. -- Margaret Chan
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed. -- David Icke
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. -- John Eisenhower
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good. -- Ban Ki-moon
I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference. -- Romola Garai
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. -- Ken Mehlman
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. -- Cliff Stearns
We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far. -- Jimmy Carter
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.' -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. -- May Sarton
I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. -- Joseph Rotblat
In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter. -- Vladimir Putin
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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