Condemnable quotes.

"We are working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world."

Historian Arnold Toynbee, 1931

"If UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] is attacked on the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's people for world government, then it is an error to burst forth with apologetic statements and denials. Let us face it: the job of UNESCO is to help create and promote the elements of world citizenship. When faced with such a 'charge,' let us by all means affirm it from the housetops."

Editorial in Saturday Review, March 23, 1953

"Two centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring forth a new world order.... We call upon all nations to strengthen and sustain the United Nations and its specialized agencies, and other institutions of world order, and to broaden the jurisdiction of the World Court."

A Declaration of INTERdependence, October 25, 1975, endorsed by 124 members of the U.S. Congress, many of whom backed away from it when publicity about its subversive content reached the public

"[W]ithin the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century--citizen of the world--will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st."

Strobe Talbott, Time, July 20, 1992 (He was named deputy secretary of state by President Clinton in 1993.)

"Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable.... [W]e have to empower the United Nations and ... we have to govern and regulate human interaction."

Jim Garrison, President, Gorbachev Foundation/USA, 1995

"We cannot leap into world government in one quick step.... [T]he precondition for eventual globalization--genuine globalization--is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

Former U.S. National Security Adviser (1977-1981) Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1995

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order."

Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, in an October 19, 1999 speech at the United Nations headquarters

"America is surrendering its sovereignty to a world government. Hooray."

Cover headline for the January 17, 2000 issue of The New Republic

"With respect to U.S. policy, when it comes to our role as a member of the [UN] Security Council, we obviously are bound by UN resolutions."

Secretary of State Colin Powell in comments to reporters at UN headquarters, February 14, 2001

"When the UN Security Council passes a resolution, it is seen as speaking for (and in the interests of) humanity as a whole, and in so doing it confers a legitimacy that is respected by the world's governments, and usually by their publics. When the resolution in question is passed under Chapter VII of the [UN] charter--that document's enforcement provisions--it becomes legally binding on all member states."

Shashi Tharoor, UN Undersecretary-General for Communications and Public Information, in his article appearing in Foreign Affairs, September/October 2003.