Richard Perle Quotes

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

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.

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.

If the American people are to say yes to U. N. peace keeping, the United Nations must know when to say no.

We must face the fact that the United Nations is not yet the international equivalent of our own legal system and the rule of law.

No one should abandon his county's interest upon entering the portals of the United Nations.

When did the American people decide that U. S. foreign policy should be conducted through the United Nations.

Preserve U. S. sovereignty and freedom of action by marginalizing the United Nations.

In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations, its Members confer on the Security Council primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action.

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.

Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.

There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

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

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.