Quotes on United Nations

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

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.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.