Gordon H. Smith Quotes

The U.N. was created for people.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

I worked at the United Nations.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.

The United Nations is a failed institution in its current form.

One thing the United Nation is good at is producing documents.

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.

We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.

I really don't want to live in a world where the U.N. will not be relevant, will not be seen as the enterprise we turn to when we have a problem.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.