Shirley Hazzard Quote
Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.
Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case (ed. Vintage, 1991)