Political Quotes

“I rise to say that on this State Department authorization bill, I shall be active in supporting amendments that would push toward reform of the United Nations. I believe the Secretary General should appoint an Inspector General at the United Nations. It has seemed very strange to me that after many years of audits that have consistently reported mismanagement and corruption within the U.N.'s bureaucracy, very little has been done to clean it up from a management point of view. I know that management is one of the dullest of subjects. I happen to believe, for example, that Congress should hold a whole session of oversight hearings rather than legislating new agencies and legislating new programs. I think we should make the Government that is already established work to our advantage. Within our various Departments, we have an inspector general who roots out corruption and finds if funds are being misused. The American taxpayers pay nearly 35 percent, if you add it all up, of the expenses of the United Nations. Indeed, I am for our being in the United Nations. I have always been pro-United Nations. I think the United Nations has a role to play, but that role is crippled when we cannot deliver supplies, when we cannot deliver food without it being stolen and resold in the streets the next morning.”