United Nations Quotes - Page 8

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Community, Likes, Clear

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• 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

  Running, Military, Law

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I believe, I am pretty certain that virtually everyone speaking from the United Nations platform is going to talk about the fight, about the need to fight terrorism, and I cannot avoid this issue, either. This is quite understandable because it is a serious common threat to all of us; it is a common challenge to all of us.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Fighting, Issues

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Community, Vision

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• 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

  Russia, Unions, States

  "Interview of President Vladimir V.Putin to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, m.rusemb.org.uk.

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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

  Given, Veto, Creatures

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• The seed has been sown that will grow one day . . . to the glorious rebirth of the National Socialist movement of a truly united nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  One Day, Movement, Rebirth

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• The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

  Haile Selassie

  World, May, Opinion

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.

  Annie Lennox

  Peace, Children, Valentine

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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

  Condolences, Want, Died

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• I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

  Gideon Rachman

  Thinking, World Government, Secret

  "And now for a world government" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. December 9, 2008.

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

  Wangari Maathai

  Inspirational, Religious, Peace

  "Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World". Book by Wangari Maathai, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• 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

  Order, World, Opinion

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Rights

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• Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

  George H. W. Bush

  Land, Iraq, Invasion

  "A World Transformed". Book by George H. W. Bush, September 14, 1998.

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• The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.

  George H. W. Bush

  Money, Nwo, People

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• We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Successful, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush's Comments by Bush on the Air Strikes Against the Iraqis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 1991.

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• Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

  John Ensign

  Oil, Hype, Administration

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• The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

  Trygve Lie

  Real, Race, Long

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• UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Unesco, Conscience, United

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• The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Political, Lines

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• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Essence, Perfect

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• We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

  Andy Rooney

  Change, Attitude, Mistake

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• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Law, Issues

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