#united nations

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. ↗

— Enid Nemy

#building #corner #could #dead #designed

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#get #give #giving #i #i think

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#enables #endears #fail #governments #main

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

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#certainty #comfortable #down #nations #safely

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#active role #against #been #criticisms #forces

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. ↗

— Ron Paul

#conservatives #early #government #him #just

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. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#china #entered #maintained #nations #position

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#better #clear #community #continue #defiance

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

#day #every #every day #how #i

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work. ↗

— Susan Rice

#concept #flawed #fundamentally #funding #legislation