There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.
Kevin RuddSomething my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
Kevin RuddBy way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
Kevin Rudd