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Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
Frank Gaffney
Freedom
Rights
Example
Human Rights
United Nations
Those
Muslims
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Council
Taking
Freedom Of Expression
Since
Demands
Along
For Example
Sought
Accommodate
Lines
Offend
Office
Stoke
Human
Nations
Lest
Expression
United
Ever
Violence
Resolution
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
George Carey
Hope
World
Will
Power
Build
United Nations
Way
Must
Only
Superpower
Support
Up
America
Going
Nations
Realise
Really
Use
Now
United
We need a relevant and efficient United Nations.
Goran Persson
United Nations
Relevant
Efficient
Nations
United
Need
The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for effective multilateral solutions and a rule-based international order.
Goran Persson
Collective
United Nations
Changing
Approach
Our
Way
Circumstances
Security
Must
Solutions
Prime
Instrument
Effective
Nations
Order
International
Multilateral
United
Adapted
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri
Work
Hope
United Nations
Summit
Gives
Impetus
New
Nations
Really
United
Millennium
As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
Helen Clark
Beginning
United Nations
Those
Followed
Charter
New
Been
Lot
Very
Role
Nations
Processes
Us
Means
United
Played
Drafting
I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Down
Believe
United Nations
President
Weak
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Taken
Very
Nations
Regarding
United
Palestine
Position
I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Organization
United Nations
Say
Anti-Semitic
Just
Nations
Whisper
United
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
James Buchan
Money
Year
Rich
United Nations
Aid
Other
Wave
Spend
Earthquake
Relief
Charitable
Some
Development
Countries
Adventurers
New
Disaster
Attract
Tidal
Overseas
South
Governments
American
Nations
Oxfam
Famine
Tax
Children
Tax Money
While
Rich Countries
Organisations
Each
Brigade
Fund
United
Jesus
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship
Time
Respect
Opportunity
Will
United Nations
Honorable
Members
Worthy
Give
Take
Nations
Place
Them
Themselves
Show
United
Among
United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.
Jim Gerlach
Will
United Nations
States
Remain
Part
Operate
Force
Forces
Command
Iraq
American
Authorized
Nations
Coalition
Coalition Forces
Multinational
United
United States
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
John Foster Dulles
Good
You
Before
United Nations
Assumed
Would
Would-Be
Make
Got
Up
Nations
Being
United
Set
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
John Polanyi
Responsibility
Sense
United Nations
Society
Unmistakable
Thousands
Civil
Civil Society
Voices
Shared
New
Nations
Agencies
International
United
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
John T. Flynn
Impossible
Conspiracy
Nation
Own
United Nations
Our
States
Must
About
Headquarters
Policies
Makes
Provides
Conduct
Shores
Nations
Form
Which
Decisions
Asia
Communist
Rid
Europe
United
United States
Actually
Here
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.
Jonas Mekas
Home
Organization
First
Few
United Nations
Brother
About
Weeks
Dropped
Feels
New
Make
Got
How
October
Camera
Yes
York
Refugee
Uprooted
Nations
New York
Being
Wanted
After
Persons
Displaced
Film
United
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
Food
Words
Result
Goals
United Nations
Out
High
Fine
Prices
Development
New
Reached
Been
Artificially
Often
Nations
Being
Turned
Deeds
United
Millennium
Start
Kept
Set
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Ken Mehlman
Good
Great
Man
Good Man
Job
Thought
United Nations
Think
Great Job
John
He
Did
Senator
Nations
United
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
Kevin Rudd
United Nations
Effective
Australia
Nations
Wants
Engaged
United
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
Kim Young-sam
Freedom
United Nations
States
Post-War
Troops
Throughout
Prime
Period
Shed
Proved
Blood
Behind
Nations
Realisation
Sweat
United
United States
I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
Kojo Annan
United Nations
Would
Never
Involves
Obvious
Role
Any
Nations
Anything
Reasons
United
Play
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
Kojo Annan
Character
Man
Integrity
Father
United Nations
Impeccable
Beyond
His
Years
Nations
Tirelessly
Reproach
Worked
Who
Many
United
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
Lakhdar Brahimi
You
Respect
United Nations
Intimidating
Come
Also
Because
Go
Source
Mandate
Nations
Gain
United
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
Martha Smith
Example
First
Country
United Nations
Complete
India
Proposed
Countries
Like
For Example
Protest
Came
Testing
Tests
Lot
Ban
Bravo
Stopped
Nations
After
Which
Should
Forward
United
Nuclear
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.
Michael Ignatieff
Strong
United Nations
Intervention
Appropriate
Weak
Claims
Only
Through
Put
Makes
Test
Source
Front
Nations
Legitimacy
Where
Place
Justification
United
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
Michael Ignatieff
Leadership
Legal
Trials
Crook
United Nations
Setting
Nuremberg
Soldiers
Hook
Franklin
Citizens
Promoted
Seeking
Since
Institutions
Exempt
Up
Norms
American
American Citizens
Nations
While
Them
Roosevelt
Enforce
United
Actual
Application
Universal
We in Britain do not have the same capabilities as the United States, but we are members of the United Nations Security Council. And we take our obligations and duties deriving from that very seriously.
Michael Portillo
Obligations
Seriously
United Nations
Our
States
Members
Security
Security Council
Council
Take
Very
Same
Duties
Nations
Capabilities
United
United States
Britain
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