Sam Farr Quotes

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.

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

The U.N. was created for people.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

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

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

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.

Respecting the United Nations as the living sign of all people's hope for peace, we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force

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

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

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

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

The Newly established United Nations must be a force for action and not merely a frothing of words.

The United Nations is really the League of Nations 2.0

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

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

We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.

I'm doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

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.