Ro Khanna Quotes

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

We must face the fact that the United Nations is not yet the international equivalent of our own legal system and the rule of law.

The United Nations Charter is not a social science experiment. It is a treaty.

Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

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

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

When states decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, they need the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.