Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the ...
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
