The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.
I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.
As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.
My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.