Council Quotes

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.

When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.

Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.