Jody Williams Quotes

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

The United Nations is your instrument for peace and justice. Use it.

In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

Respecting the United Nations as the living sign of all people's hope for peace, we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force

World peace must be based on world plenty.

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.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Frankly, Senators, if nations may not safely agree to respect each other’s rights, and may not agree to confer if one party to the compact threatens trespass, or may not agree to advise if one party to the pact is threatened by an outside power, then all concerted efforts to tranquilize the world and stabilize peace must be flung to the winds. Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery

Republican committal for an Association of Nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force, determined to add to security through international law, so clarified that no misconstruction can be possible without affronting world honor.

Like all peoples, Russian millions share our longing for a friendly and peaceful world.

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

I really don't want to live in a world where the U.N. will not be relevant, will not be seen as the enterprise we turn to when we have a problem.

The U.N. was created for people.

The United Nations has an irreplaceable role in dealing with global issues. While other international bodies play important roles, the U.N. is the only truly global arena where we can achieve results for the global good.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with Russia?

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.