All Quotes

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.
‐‐ Jim Ratcliffe

The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
‐‐ Damian Marley

The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

The U.K. military role in Iraq ended a very long way from success.
‐‐ John Chilcot

The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
‐‐ Theresa May

The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
‐‐ Eric Fellner

The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The U.K.'s relationship with the U.S. has proved strong enough over time to bear the weight of honest disagreement. It does not require unconditional support where our interests or judgements differ.
‐‐ John Chilcot

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
‐‐ Madeleine Albright

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.
‐‐ Robert Foster Bennett

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.
‐‐ Andrew Card

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.
‐‐ Shashi Tharoor

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
‐‐ Ted Turner

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.
‐‐ Tony Greig

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.
‐‐ Peter T. King

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
‐‐ Hans Blix

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
‐‐ John Bolton

The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
‐‐ Nicholas D. Kristof

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.
‐‐ Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.
‐‐ Tony Greig

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
‐‐ Zach Wamp

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
‐‐ Bashar al-Assad

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
‐‐ Zong Qinghou

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
‐‐ Zalmay Khalilzad

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
‐‐ Bobby Fischer

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
‐‐ John W. Thompson

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
‐‐ Jim Walsh

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
‐‐ Elon Musk

The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced.
‐‐ Robert Mundell

The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
‐‐ Susan Rice

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio