Barack Obama actually said...

The people who serve the United Nations do so with a simple purpose: to try to improve the lives of their neighbors and promote the values on which the U.N. was founded--dignity, freedom, security, and peace.

Context

Statement on the Terrorist Attack on the United Nations Headquarters in Abuja

08/25/2011

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