Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Worries about misplaced sovereignty [at the UN] … appear to come primarily from people aggrieved to find the United Nations so full of foreigners.

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.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

The United Nations exists to help countries solve their problems. If it helps the Americans solve theirs by blaming me, I'll be a scapegoat.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

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

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

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

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.

[Describing the United Nations:] The world cockpit of propaganda.

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

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

World government is a premature concept at this stage. We are moving more and more into supernational arrangements, but it is too early still.

Many nations want the United Nations Secretary General to be less general and more secretary.

While most nations seemed to agree that something had to be done, every nation seemed to have a reason why some other nation should do it. So we sat, waiting for a promise to be kept, reduced to the role of accountants keeping track of how many were being killed.

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Attempts to run the world generate resistance.

We cannot cede our moral authority to multinational debating societies.

The UN doesn’t take any moral stands unless its against Israel.

The United Nations is really the League of Nations 2.0

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to be a part of the twentieth century.

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.