Barry Goldwater Quotes

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I think that we should have a very serious discussion about defunding the United nations… Why should we be paying for the UN?

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

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

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.

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

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.

I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

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.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

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.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

According to the U. N. Charter, the Secretary General is the chief administrative officer, not its chief moralizer.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

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.

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