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United Nations Quotes

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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

Authors on United Nations Quotes: Winston Churchill Susan Rice Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Mahathir Mohamad Michael Scott Vladimir Putin Conor Cruise O'Brien Kevin Rudd David Vitter Federico Mayor Zaragoza Mary Robinson Tony Benn Anthony Zinni Jimmy Carter Dean Acheson Harri Holkeri Kofi Annan Romola Garai John Bolton David Ben-Gurion George W. Bush Barbara Hepworth Kojo Annan U Thant John F. Kerry Al Gore Gillian Sorensen Elliott Abrams Haile Selassie S. R. Nathan John Foster Dulles Cliff Stearns Ginny Brown-Waite
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U Thant

3.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
Haile Selassie

4.
UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza

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There's no such thing as the United Nations.
John Bolton

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We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.
David Ben-Gurion

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The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.
Barbara Hepworth

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I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.
Susan Rice

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You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien

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I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.
Mahathir Mohamad

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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson

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India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill

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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

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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri

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I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
Susan Rice

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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

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The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
Gillian Sorensen

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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
David Vitter

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It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.
Vladimir Putin

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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

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I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.
Tony Benn

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At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
Elliott Abrams

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In order for the U.N. to be effective, there must be consequences if people thumb their nose at the United Nations Security Council. And we will work with people on the Security Council to achieve that objective.
George W. Bush

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In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
S. R. Nathan

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I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael Scott

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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
Kevin Rudd

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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

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Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.
Mary Robinson

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The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Winston Churchill

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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

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A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.
Kofi Annan

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I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
Kojo Annan

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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

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The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
Anthony Zinni

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The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.
Ginny Brown-Waite