Rick Perry Quotes

We begin by not taking it [the United Nations] seriously.

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.

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.

During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

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

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

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

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.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

According to the U. N. Charter, the Secretary General is the chief administrative officer, not its chief moralizer.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

The United Nations is an organization of sovereign states, but the rights that it upholds belong to individuals.

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

The President professes a faith in the United Nations but his actions and statements are not designed to give life or vitality to that organization.

The best thing that most Americans can say about the UN is that it is ineffectual. That’s the best thing.

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. If there is something you are expected to do, but don't want to do, or even have done for you, you can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.