I is here standing outside the United Nations of Benetton. Which is where representatives from the three corners of the world come to end wars, international drug trafficking, and everything else that is a bit of a laugh. – Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G, Da Ali G Show. Standing outside UN building in New York.
I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali. – Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G, Da Ali G Show.
Is Disneyland a part of the UN? – Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G, Da Ali G Show. To former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations – adopted unanimously – called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. – Joseph Rotblat
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations. – Anthony Carmona
Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It’s an anti-democratic structure. – Adolfo Perez Esquivel
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations. – Fidel Castro
We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations. – Felipe VI of Spain
The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. – Ginny Brown-Waite
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. – Elliott Abrams
Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation. – Norman Schwarzkopf
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. – Cliff Stearns
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. – Michelle Bachelet
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president – as a speaker at the United Nations. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The Argentine government is convinced of Mrs. Malcorra’s conditions and capacities that will allow her to amply carry out the functions of the role of Secretary General of the United Nations. – Mauricio Macri
One morning, just like 9/11, there’s going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. – Newt Gingrich
In Syria, while secretary of state, Clinton watched as United Nations resolution after U.N. resolution failed. She accomplished nothing except to repeat the refrain, ‘Assad must go.’ – Keith Kellogg
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. – Linda Chavez
In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi’s camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world. – Joby Warrick
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
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak. – Michael Ignatieff
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. – John Foster Dulles