The President: Mr. Secretary General,
Mr. President, world leaders, and distinguished
delegates: Welcome to New York.
It is a profound honor to stand here in my home
city, as a representative of the American people, to
address the people of the world.
As millions of our citizens continue to
suffer the effects of the devastating hurricanes
that have struck our country, I want to begin
by expressing my appreciation to every
leader in this room who has offered
assistance and aid.
The American people are strong and resilient, and
they will emerge from these hardships more
determined than ever before.
Fortunately, the United States has done very well
since Election Day last November 8th.
The stock market is at an all-time high -- a record.
Unemployment is at its lowest level in 16 years,
and because of our regulatory and other
reforms, we have more people working in the
United States today than ever before.
Companies are moving back, creating job growth the
likes of which our country has not seen in
a very long time.
And it has just been announced that we will be
spending almost $700 billion on our
military and defense.
Our military will soon be the strongest it
has ever been.
For more than 70 years, in times of war and peace,
the leaders of nations, movements, and religions
have stood before this assembly.
Like them, I intend to address some of the very
serious threats before us today but also the
enormous potential waiting to be unleashed.
We live in a time of extraordinary opportunity.
Breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine
are curing illnesses and solving problems that
prior generations thought impossible to solve.
But each day also brings news of growing dangers
that threaten everything we cherish and value.
Terrorists and extremists have gathered strength
and spread to every region of the planet.
Rogue regimes represented in this body not only
support terrorists but threaten other nations
and their own people with the most destructive
weapons known to humanity.
Authority and authoritarian powers seek
to collapse the values, the systems, and alliances
that prevented conflict and tilted the world
toward freedom since World War II.
International criminal networks traffic drugs,
weapons, people; force dislocation and mass
migration; threaten our borders; and new forms
of aggression exploit technology to
menace our citizens.
To put it simply, we meet at a time of both of
immense promise and great peril.
It is entirely up to us whether we lift the world
to new heights, or let it fall into
a valley of disrepair.
We have it in our power, should we so choose, to
lift millions from poverty, to help our
citizens realize their dreams, and to ensure that
new generations of children are raised
free from violence, hatred, and fear.
This institution was founded in the aftermath
of two world wars to help shape this better future.
It was based on the vision that diverse nations could
cooperate to protect their sovereignty, preserve
their security, and promote their prosperity.
It was in the same period, exactly 70 years ago,
that the United States developed the Marshall
Plan to help restore Europe.
Those three beautiful pillars -- they're pillars
of peace, sovereignty, security, and prosperity.
The Marshall Plan was built on the noble idea
that the whole world is safer when nations
are strong, independent, and free.
As President Truman said in his message to Congress
at that time, "Our support of European recovery is in
full accord with our support of
the United Nations.
The success of the United Nations depends upon the
independent strength of its members."
To overcome the perils of the present and to achieve
the promise of the future, we must begin with the
wisdom of the past.
Our success depends on a coalition of strong and
independent nations that embrace their sovereignty
to promote security, prosperity, and peace
for themselves and for the world.
We do not expect diverse countries to share the
same cultures, traditions, or even systems
of government.
But we do expect all nations to uphold these
two core sovereign duties: to respect the interests
of their own people and the rights of every
other sovereign nation.
This is the beautiful vision of this
institution, and this is foundation for
cooperation and success.
Strong, sovereign nations let diverse countries with
different values, different cultures, and
different dreams not just coexist, but work side by
side on the basis of mutual respect.
Strong, sovereign nations let their people take
ownership of the future and control their own destiny.
And strong, sovereign nations allow individuals
to flourish in the fullness of the life
intended by God.
In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life
on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example
for everyone to watch.
This week gives our country a special reason
to take pride in that example.
We are celebrating the 230th anniversary of our
beloved Constitution -- the oldest constitution
still in use in the world today.
This timeless document has been the foundation of
peace, prosperity, and freedom for the Americans
and for countless millions around the globe whose own
countries have found inspiration in its respect
for human nature, human dignity, and the rule of law.
The greatest in the United States Constitution
is its first three beautiful words.
They are: "We the people."
Generations of Americans have sacrificed to
maintain the promise of those words, the promise
of our country, and of our great history.
In America, the people govern, the people rule,
and the people are sovereign.
I was elected not to take power, but to give power
to the American people, where it belongs.
In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding
principle of sovereignty.
Our government's first duty is to its people, to
our citizens -- to serve their needs, to ensure
their safety, to preserve their rights, and to
defend their values.
As President of the United States, I will always put
America first, just like you, as the leaders of
your countries will always, and should always,
put your countries first.
(applause)
All responsible leaders have an obligation to
serve their own citizens, and the nation-state
remains the best vehicle for elevating
the human condition.
But making a better life for our people also
requires us to work together in close harmony
and unity to create a more safe and peaceful
future for all people.
The United States will forever be a great friend
to the world, and especially to its allies.
But we can no longer be taken advantage of, or
enter into a one-sided deal where the
United States gets nothing in return.
As long as I hold this office, I will defend
America's interests above all else.
But in fulfilling our obligations to our own
nations, we also realize that it's in everyone's
interest to seek a future where all nations can
be sovereign, prosperous, and secure.
America does more than speak for the values
expressed in the United Nations Charter.
Our citizens have paid the ultimate price to defend
our freedom and the freedom of many nations
represented in this great hall.
America's devotion is measured on the
battlefields where our young men and women have
fought and sacrificed alongside of our allies,
from the beaches of Europe to the deserts of the
Middle East to the jungles of Asia.
It is an eternal credit to the American character
that even after we and our allies emerged victorious
from the bloodiest war in history, we did not seek
territorial expansion, or attempt to oppose and
impose our way of life on others.
Instead, we helped build institutions such as this
one to defend the sovereignty, security, and
prosperity for all.
For the diverse nations of the world, this
is our hope.
We want harmony and friendship, not
conflict and strife.
We are guided by outcomes, not ideology.
We have a policy of principled realism, rooted
in shared goals, interests, and values.
That realism forces us to confront a question facing
every leader and nation in this room.
It is a question we cannot escape or avoid.
We will slide down the path of complacency, numb
to the challenges, threats, and even wars
that we face.
Or do we have enough strength and pride to
confront those dangers today, so that our
citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?
If we desire to lift up our citizens, if we aspire
to the approval of history, then we must
fulfill our sovereign duties to the people we
faithfully represent.
We must protect our nations, their interests,
and their futures.
We must reject threats to sovereignty, from the
Ukraine to the South China Sea.
We must uphold respect for law, respect for borders,
and respect for culture, and the peaceful
engagement these allow.
And just as the founders of this body intended, we
must work together and confront together those
who threaten us with chaos, turmoil, and terror.
The scourge of our planet today is a small group of
rogue regimes that violate every principle on which
the United Nations is based.
They respect neither their own citizens nor the
sovereign rights of their countries.
If the righteous many do not confront the wicked
few, then evil will triumph.
When decent people and nations become bystanders
to history, the forces of destruction only gather
power and strength.
No one has shown more contempt for other nations
and for the wellbeing of their own people than the
depraved regime in North Korea.
It is responsible for the starvation deaths of
millions of North Koreans, and for the imprisonment,
torture, killing, and oppression of countless more.
We were all witness to the regime's deadly abuse when
an innocent American college student, Otto
Warmbier, was returned to America only to die
a few days later.
We saw it in the assassination of the
dictator's brother using banned nerve agents in an
international airport.
We know it kidnapped a sweet 13-year-old Japanese
girl from a beach in her own country to enslave her
as a language tutor for North Korea's spies.
If this is not twisted enough, now North Korea's
reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and
ballistic missiles threatens the entire world
with unthinkable loss of human life.
It is an outrage that some nations would not only
trade with such a regime, but would arm, supply, and
financially support a country that imperils
the world with nuclear conflict.
No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this
band of criminals arm itself with nuclear
weapons and missiles.
The United States has great strength and
patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or
its allies, we will have no choice but to totally
destroy North Korea.
Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself
and for his regime.
The United States is ready, willing and able,
but hopefully this will not be necessary.
That's what the United Nations is all about;
that's what the United Nations is for.
Let's see how they do.
It is time for North Korea to realize that the
denuclearization is its only acceptable future.
The United Nations Security Council recently
held two unanimous 15-0 votes adopting
hard-hitting resolutions against North Korea, and I
want to thank China and Russia for joining the
vote to impose sanctions, along with all of the
other members of the Security Council.
Thank you to all involved.
But we must do much more.
It is time for all nations to work together to
isolate the Kim regime until it ceases its
hostile behavior.
We face this decision not only in North Korea.
It is far past time for the nations of the world
to confront another reckless regime -- one
that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing death to
America, destruction to Israel, and ruin for many
leaders and nations in this room.
The Iranian government masks a corrupt
dictatorship behind the false guise
of a democracy.
It has turned a wealthy country with a rich
history and culture into an economically depleted
rogue state whose chief exports are violence,
bloodshed, and chaos.
The longest-suffering victims of Iran's
leaders are, in fact, its own people.
Rather than use its resources to improve
Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund
Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill
innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab
and Israeli neighbors.
This wealth, which rightly belongs to Iran's people,
also goes to shore up Bashar al-Assad's
dictatorship, fuel Yemen's civil war, and undermine
peace throughout the entire Middle East.
We cannot let a murderous regime continue these
destabilizing activities while building dangerous
missiles, and we cannot abide by an agreement if
it provides cover for the eventual construction
of a nuclear program.
(applause)
The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most
one-sided transactions the United States has
ever entered into.
Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the
United States, and I don't think you've heard the
last of it -- believe me.
It is time for the entire world to join us in
demanding that Iran's government end its pursuit
of death and destruction.
It is time for the regime to free all Americans and
citizens of other nations that they have
unjustly detained.
And above all, Iran's government must stop
supporting terrorists, begin serving its own
people, and respect the sovereign rights
of its neighbors.
The entire world understands that the good
people of Iran want change, and, other than
the vast military power of the United States, that
Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most.
This is what causes the regime to restrict
Internet access, tear down satellite dishes, shoot
unarmed student protestors, and imprison
political reformers.
Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the
day will come when the Iranian people will
face a choice.
Will they continue down the path of poverty,
bloodshed, and terror?
Or will the Iranian people return to the nation's
proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and
wealth where their people can be happy and
prosperous once again?
The Iranian regime's support for terror is in
stark contrast to the recent commitments of many
of its neighbors to fight terrorism and halt
its financing.
In Saudi Arabia early last year, I was greatly
honored to address the leaders of more than 50
Arab and Muslim nations.
We agreed that all responsible nations must
work together to confront terrorists and the
Islamist extremism that inspires them.
We will stop radical Islamic terrorism because
we cannot allow it to tear up our nation, and indeed
to tear up the entire world.
We must deny the terrorists safe haven,
transit, funding, and any form of support for
their vile and sinister ideology.
We must drive them out of our nations.
It is time to expose and hold responsible those
countries who support and finance terror groups like
al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others that
slaughter innocent people.
The United States and our allies are working
together throughout the Middle East to crush the
loser terrorists and stop the reemergence of safe
havens they use to launch attacks on all of our people.
Last month, I announced a new strategy for victory
in the fight against this evil in Afghanistan.
From now on, our security interests will dictate the
length and scope of military operations, not
arbitrary benchmarks and timetables set
up by politicians.
I have also totally changed the rules of
engagement in our fight against the Taliban and
other terrorist groups.
In Syria and Iraq, we have made big gains toward
lasting defeat of ISIS.
In fact, our country has achieved more against ISIS
in the last eight months than it has in many, many
years combined.
We seek the de-escalation of the Syrian conflict,
and a political solution that honors the will of
the Syrian people.
The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar
al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons
against his own citizens -- even innocent children
-- shock the conscience of every decent person.
No society can be safe if banned chemical weapons
are allowed to spread.
That is why the United States carried out a
missile strike on the airbase that
launched the attack.
We appreciate the efforts of United Nations agencies
that are providing vital humanitarian assistance in
areas liberated from ISIS, and we especially thank
Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon for their role in hosting
refugees from the Syrian conflict.
The United States is a compassionate nation and
has spent billions and billions of dollars in
helping to support this effort.
We seek an approach to refugee resettlement that
is designed to help these horribly treated people,
and which enables their eventual return to their
home countries, to be part of the rebuilding process.
For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United
States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region.
Out of the goodness of our hearts, we offer financial
assistance to hosting countries in the region,
and we support recent agreements of the G20
nations that will seek to host refugees as close to
their home countries as possible.
This is the safe, responsible, and
humanitarian approach.
For decades, the United States has dealt with
migration challenges here in the Western Hemisphere.
We have learned that, over the long term,
uncontrolled migration is deeply unfair to both the
sending and the receiving countries.
For the sending countries, it reduces domestic
pressure to pursue needed political and economic
reform, and drains them of the human capital
necessary to motivate and implement those reforms.
For the receiving countries, the substantial
costs of uncontrolled migration are borne
overwhelmingly by low-income citizens whose
concerns are often ignored by both
media and government.
I want to salute the work of the United Nations in
seeking to address the problems that cause people
to flee from their homes.
The United Nations and African Union led
peacekeeping missions to have invaluable
contributions in stabilizing
conflicts in Africa.
The United States continues to lead the
world in humanitarian assistance, including
famine prevention and relief in South Sudan,
Somalia, and northern Nigeria and Yemen.
We have invested in better health and opportunity all
over the world through programs like PEPFAR,
which funds AIDS relief; the President's Malaria
Initiative; the Global Health Security Agenda;
the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; and the
Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, part
of our commitment to empowering women all
across the globe.
We also thank --
(applause)
-- we also thank the Secretary General for
recognizing that the United Nations must reform
if it is to be an effective partner in
confronting threats to sovereignty, security,
and prosperity.
Too often the focus of this organization has not
been on results, but on bureaucracy and process.
In some cases, states that seek to subvert this
institution's noble aims have hijacked the very
systems that are supposed to advance them.
For example, it is a massive source of
embarrassment to the United Nations that some
governments with egregious human rights records
sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
The United States is one out of 193 countries in
the United Nations, and yet we pay 22 percent of
the entire budget and more.
In fact, we pay far more than anybody realizes.
The United States bears an unfair cost burden, but,
to be fair, if it could actually accomplish all of
its stated goals, especially the goal of
peace, this investment would easily be well worth it.
Major portions of the world are in conflict and
some, in fact, are going to hell.
But the powerful people in this room, under the
guidance and auspices of the United Nations, can
solve many of these vicious and complex problems.
The American people hope that one day soon the
United Nations can be a much more accountable and
effective advocate for human dignity and freedom
around the world.
In the meantime, we believe that no nation
should have to bear a disproportionate share of
the burden, militarily or financially.
Nations of the world must take a greater role in
promoting secure and prosperous societies in
their own regions.
That is why in the Western Hemisphere, the United
States has stood against the corrupt and
destabilizing regime in Cuba and embraced the
enduring dream of the Cuban people to
live in freedom.
My administration recently announced that we will not
lift sanctions on the Cuban government until it
makes fundamental reforms.
We have also imposed tough, calibrated
sanctions on the socialist Maduro regime in
Venezuela, which has brought a once thriving
nation to the brink of total collapse.
The socialist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro has
inflicted terrible pain and suffering on the good
people of that country.
This corrupt regime destroyed a prosperous
nation by imposing a failed ideology that has
produced poverty and misery everywhere
it has been tried.
To make matters worse, Maduro has defied his own
people, stealing power from their elected
representatives to preserve his disastrous rule.
The Venezuelan people are starving and their
country is collapsing.
Their democratic institutions are
being destroyed.
This situation is completely unacceptable
and we cannot stand by and watch.
As a responsible neighbor and friend, we and all
others have a goal.
That goal is to help them regain their freedom,
recover their country, and restore their democracy.
I would like to thank leaders in this room for
condemning the regime and providing vital support to
the Venezuelan people.
The United States has taken important steps
to hold the regime accountable.
We are prepared to take further action if the
government of Venezuela persists on its path to
impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.
We are fortunate to have incredibly strong and
healthy trade relationships with many of
the Latin American countries gathered here today.
Our economic bond forms a critical foundation for
advancing peace and prosperity for all of our
people and all of our neighbors.
I ask every country represented here today to
be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis.
We call for the full restoration of democracy
and political freedoms in Venezuela.
(applause)
The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has
been poorly implemented, but that socialism has
been faithfully implemented.
(applause)
From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela,
wherever true socialism or communism has been
adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation
and failure.
Those who preach the tenets of these
discredited ideologies only contribute to the
continued suffering of the people who live under
these cruel systems.
America stands with every person living under
a brutal regime.
Our respect for sovereignty is also
a call for action.
All people deserve a government that cares for
their safety, their interests, and their
wellbeing, including their prosperity.
In America, we seek stronger ties of business
and trade with all nations of good will, but this
trade must be fair and it must be reciprocal.
For too long, the American people were told that
mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable
international tribunals, and powerful global
bureaucracies were the best way to promote
their success.
But as those promises flowed, millions of jobs
vanished and thousands of factories disappeared.
Others gamed the system and broke the rules.
And our great middle class, once the bedrock of
American prosperity, was forgotten and left behind,
but they are forgotten no more and they will never
be forgotten again.
While America will pursue cooperation and commerce
with other nations, we are renewing our commitment to
the first duty of every government: the duty
of our citizens.
This bond is the source of America's strength and
that of every responsible nation represented here today.
If this organization is to have any hope of
successfully confronting the challenges before us,
it will depend, as President Truman said some
70 years ago, on the "independent strength of
its members." If we are to embrace the opportunities
of the future and overcome the present dangers
together, there can be no substitute for strong,
sovereign, and independent nations -- nations that
are rooted in their histories and invested in
their destinies; nations that seek allies to
befriend, not enemies to conquer; and most
important of all, nations that are home to patriots,
to men and women who are willing to sacrifice for
their countries, their fellow citizens, and for
all that is best in the human spirit.
In remembering the great victory that led to this
body's founding, we must never forget that those
heroes who fought against evil also fought for the
nations that they loved.
Patriotism led the Poles to die to save Poland, the
French to fight for a free France, and the Brits to
stand strong for Britain.
Today, if we do not invest ourselves, our hearts, and
our minds in our nations, if we will not build
strong families, safe communities, and healthy
societies for ourselves, no one can do it for us.
We cannot wait for someone else, for faraway
countries or far-off bureaucrats -- we can't do it.
We must solve our problems, to build our
prosperity, to secure our futures, or we will be
vulnerable to decay, domination, and defeat.
The true question for the United Nations today, for
people all over the world who hope for better lives
for themselves and their children, is a basic one:
Are we still patriots?
Do we love our nations enough to protect their
sovereignty and to take ownership of their futures?
Do we revere them enough to defend their interests,
preserve their cultures, and ensure a peaceful
world for their citizens?
One of the greatest American patriots, John
Adams, wrote that the American Revolution was
"effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the
people." That was the moment when America awoke,
when we looked around and understood that we
were a nation.
We realized who we were, what we valued, and what
we would give our lives to defend.
From its very first moments, the American
story is the story of what is possible when people
take ownership of their future.
The United States of America has been among the
greatest forces for good in the history of the
world, and the greatest defenders of sovereignty,
security, and prosperity for all.
Now we are calling for a great reawakening of
nations, for the revival of their spirits, their
pride, their people, and their patriotism.
History is asking us whether we are up to the task.
Our answer will be a renewal of will, a
rediscovery of resolve, and a rebirth of devotion.
We need to defeat the enemies of humanity and
unlock the potential of life itself.
Our hope is a word and -- world of proud,
independent nations that embrace their duties, seek
friendship, respect others, and make common
cause in the greatest shared interest of all: a
future of dignity and peace for the people of
this wonderful Earth.
This is the true vision of the United Nations, the
ancient wish of every people, and the deepest
yearning that lives inside every sacred soul.
So let this be our mission, and let this be
our message to the world: We will fight together,
sacrifice together, and stand together for peace,
for freedom, for justice, for family, for humanity,
and for the almighty God who made us all.
Thank you.
God bless you.
God bless the nations of the world.
And God bless the United States of America.
Thank you very much.
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