Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite speaking. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 17 June 2005.
In 1983 in the wake of the Korean airliner shootdown, there were diplomatic arguments of landing rights in New York for Russian U. N. diplomats. This prompted some U. N. member nations to call for the removal of the U. N. from New York:
The threat to which Rubin was referring was the fact that the United States, the largest dues payer to those organizations were in arrears on their dues—financially strapping the organizations. The reason for the arrears was a combination of 3 forces. There was conservative dissatisfaction with many of the policies and decisions of these international bodies. There was an effort to produce badly needed reform in those organizations, ranging from lack of transparency to toleration of massive corruption that was strongly resisted. Last, the United Nations was culturally very different from what Americans are used to with the diplomatic niceties taking precedence over candor and “telling it like it is, first class travel and accommodations for United Nations staff and consultants, sumptuous offices in many countries including America, and a civil service not based on merit but with quotas of nationality.
The United States, as the world’s wealthiest nation, paid then for more than 50% of the UN budget.
Virginia Brown-Waite is the former U.S. Representative for Florida's 5th congressional district, serving from 2003 until 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and a founder of Maggie's List.
