Maxime Bernier Quotes

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

The U.N. was created for people.

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

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

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

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

The United Nations Security Council is there to protect the interest of the Americans and the British.

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

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva

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

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

… unless the United Nations stops becoming simply a debating society for anti-American rhetoric, I'm going to show them the door.

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.

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments themselves are less capable of implementing the kind of promises or programs that they have put forward.

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.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

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

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 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.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.