#united nations

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

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Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#basic #body #canada #effective #efforts

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#before #brutal #contribution #defeat #fascism

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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

— Ginny B. Waite

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