The first President Bush was very effective with the U.N..

There was a sense among Roosevelt's generation the League of Nations had failed.

It's widely accepted the U.N. has to undergo a certain amount of reform. I think the future of the U.N. is bright. It's critical.

This is a celebration not just of passage of act but everything Social Security has done for past 70 years, ... Social Security is one of the hallmark programs of the New Deal era and I think it's important to remind people of the great structural reforms that took place during the Roosevelt era.

Korea is a real success. It was very much a U.N.-sanctioned operation.

One of the critical things he saw was not returning to isolationism. That, he said, would lead to disaster. Roosevelt was very much committed that the U.S. play a proper role in the U.N.