Gary Weiss Quotes

To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

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.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

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.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

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

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

The United Nations is in need of reform. The Security Council reflects the world exactly as it was 60 years ago—not today.

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

The Secretary General of the United Nations is more of a secretary than a general.

In the United Nations, the United States can almost always get its way…. The United States has the ability to make the United Nations work or not work---if it cares enough.

The League of Nations must never break the sacred support of the minority-rights.[

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

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons.

The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

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.

There was not an ambassador in the world who was not my personal human rights representative.

Respect for human rights is a cornerstone of U. S. foreign policy.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

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

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

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.