United Nations Quotes - Page 16

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

  Michael Scott

  Scottish, United, Nations

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• If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.

  Paul Robeson

  People, Together, Want

  Daily Worker, November 15, 1945.

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

  David Ben-Gurion

  United, Ideals, Nations

  "Israel: The Watchman". content.time.com. August 16, 1948.

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• People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

  Rick Warren

  People, Volunteer, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

  John F. Kerry

  Use, Hussein, Resolution

  "Tricky John Kerry" by Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2003.

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• Global warming people ignore nature; they ignore water vapor; they ignore sunspot cycles and sun activity. It's typical liberal guilt and politics wanting to blame western societies and lifestyles for causing all these problems because it leads to government and United Nations solutions, and that's where liberals like power vested. And of course when people come along and don't agree, they gotta be shut up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Water, People, Guilt

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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

  People, Achieve, Security

  George W. Bush's remarks at the news conference, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2006.

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• For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

  Mariela Castro

  Innovation, Identity, Revolutionary

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Running, Wall

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• An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

  Daniel Yergin

  Past, Native Language, Environmental

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• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  Omar Bongo

  Europe, People, Important

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• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  Zach Wamp

  Believe, Organization, Matter

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• I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  America, President, Clinton

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• The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

  Bernard Dowiyogo

  People, West, Destruction

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• President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have countries like Cuba, Libya and Uganda sitting in judgment on Arizona's laws? Enough is enough!

  Russell Pearce

  Country, Uganda, Law

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

  Kevin Rudd

  Australia, Want, Engaged

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, United States, Today

  "Scott Ritter: Case against Iraq is speculation". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2002.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

  George Weah

  Country, Believe, Rights

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• 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

  Trying, World, Irony

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• I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

  Kojo Annan

  Play, Roles, Reason

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• My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.

  Kojo Annan

  Father, Integrity, Character

  "U.N. Deputy Gets Fair Share of Blame in Oil-for-Food Report". www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2005.

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

  Kojo Annan

  Business Related, United, Related

  "Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt'" by Jeff Koinange, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2004.

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

  Larry Elder

  Country, Media, Rights

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