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• As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

  Adam Hochschild

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• Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

  Arthur L. Herman

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• Just as an individual’s ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

  Peter Blair Henry

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• All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.

  David Rockefeller

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• I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

  Ariel Sharon

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• Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit – we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

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• I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, ‘promotes the general welfare’ of its people.

  Richard Schiff

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• Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• Remember where you came from.

  Donald Rumsfeld

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• There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.

  Kevin Rudd

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  Tags in Embrace, Nations

• If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

  Kevin Rudd

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• I don’t want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I’m pushing them out.

  Michel Martelly

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• I think it’s extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

  John Major

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• I don’t think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

  John Major

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• The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth’s biocapacity – the capacity of the world’s ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

  Sigmar Gabriel

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• 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.

  Susan Rice

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• I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

  Susan Rice

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

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• Developing nations want to become developed nations.

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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• The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

  Stephen Lewis

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