Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

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

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

The United Nations is your instrument for peace and justice. Use it.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

This business of heads of governments stepping into aeroplanes and flying off to talk things over with one another may well start a new era in diplomacy.

I think it also important that the policies of the great nations be made simple and clear, so that the chance of misunderstanding is minimized.

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

I would like to implore all the governments of the world to come together to form a protocol to regulate virtual currency.

Some of the policy measures that are important are politically difficult if taken independent of actions by others in support of common goals. Joint actions are therefore needed, and establishing a G-11 with an effective role for the IMF provides the viable way forward.

I want to support the United Nations who can share our voice and make us heard. What they do makes the world a better place; if each of us can just give a word to their cause, it will only get better.

How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

I certainly am not alone in the world with this demand; I am in the best of company. Let it be said that no self-respecting people and no responsible government would be able to think or much less act differently in such a case. The world has already seen a great many wars lost in the past.

The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.

We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

In fact UN is more of a galaxy of organisations and agencies than one machine.