#council

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#i #involves #liberating #me #plate

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#arts #council #development #difficulty #film

Good council has no price. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#good #price

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#allows #any #arabia #china #council

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#any #council #countries #cuba #human

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#council #effect #entrusted #guaranteeing #lebanon

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one. ↗

— Warren R. Austin

#begin #council #general #general assembly #god

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#being #bench #city #city council #congress