What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
Jeane KirkpatrickVietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
Jeane Kirkpatrick