The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.
We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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