#united nations

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#beginning #consumed #europe #founded #full

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#fragile #instrument #less #making #nations

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#i #know #may #nations #people

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#because #clear #congress #even #experience

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

#fact #founded #good #good intentions #hull

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#nations #place #under #united #united nations

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #come #gain #go #intimidating

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#did #disagree #good #good man #great

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