#council

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#council #debate #effort #either #more

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. ↗

— Dora Russell

#council #especially #great #innovation #measures

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#board #both #contribute #corporations #council

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. ↗

— Black Kettle

#each #friends #intrigues #keep #now

The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to have their most serious discussions around the Ping-Pong table in the rec room with crackers and Cheez Whiz, so Percy felt right at home. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-mark-of-athena #war-council

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement. ↗

— George Carey

#council #encouragement #great #growth #here

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

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. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#big #council #eye #general #general assembly

The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#assume #council #development #france #full