Mark Meadows Quotes

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

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.

I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

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.

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

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

Since World War II, the rules-based international order created and maintained by the United States has benefited peoples around the globe and none more so than Americans here at home.

Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.

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.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

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.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

We should stop giving aid to countries that hate us..

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

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.

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

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

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

The best thing that most Americans can say about the UN is that it is ineffectual. That’s the best thing.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. If there is something you are expected to do, but don't want to do, or even have done for you, you can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.