Jo Cox Quotes

Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

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.

A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.

People often ask us what we get by our frequent travel to countries. I want to tell them we do not travel to have fun; we travel to build our relationship with other countries, and it is because of our ties with these countries that we were able to rescue 7,000 people from Yemen.

I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.

When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

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.

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

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

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

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

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