United Nations Quotations

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

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

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

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

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

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.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations.

We consider that the United Nations' ideal is a Jewish ideal.

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

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

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

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

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

There's no such thing as the United Nations,

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

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.

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

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

Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

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.

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

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