Conor Cruise O'Brien Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

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.

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

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

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.

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

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.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

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

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

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.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Our use of the United Nations as an instrument for opposing Soviet expansion. prior to the conclusion of peace, has strained that institution severely. It has an increasing tendency to alarm smaller nations and to paralyze, rather than stimulate, their will to play an active part in the organization

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.