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PRIVATE SECTOR

As you think about U.S. funding, we encourage you to likewise consider how the UN supports American businesses operating globally as well as how the organization's programs help create and maintain U.S. jobs and promote economic development in the United States.

BD, Mars Incorporated and Walgreens June 26, 2017

PRIVATE SECTOR

In its simplest form, working with different UN entities are core to our business growth strategies and objectives.

By maintaining full funding to the UN, the U.S. can advance its own goals and interests of securing and promoting peace and security and simultaneously pursue job growth here.

Alex Gourlay, President and CEO of Walgreen Co June 22, 2017

PRIVATE SECTOR

We are committed to using the creativity, innovation and power of our people and agencies across the globe to help the UN achieve the SDGs.

John Wren, President and CEO, Omnicom Group June 19, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

Americans recognize that our world’s intractable challenges cannot be resolved by one country alone. Whether we aim to address the planet’s worst humanitarian and refugee crisis since World War II, terrorism, or threats from the effects of climate change, the United Nations is essential for advancing our national interests.

Chris Whatley, Executive Director of UNA-USA June 13, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

The UN’s collective efforts, whether it’s implementing sanctions, coordinating a response to international terrorism, or delivering lifesaving aid, ensures that the U.S. does not bear the cost of maintaining international order on its own.

John D. Negroponte and Thomas R. Pickering, former U.S. Ambassadors to the UN April 25, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

None of us believe the UN is perfect, but we all believe it remains an essential tool in America's foreign policy and national security tool box

Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State April 25, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

It is important strategically for us to know that the U.N. plays a huge role in dealing with problems in a way that keeps us from having to deal with them.

Thomas Pickering, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN April 25, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

The U.S. has proposed drastic cuts to the UN, its agencies, and global health programs that are on the front lines of fighting disease. Walking away from these investments not only hurts communities abroad, it puts Americans’ health at risk.

Julio Frenk, President of the University of Miami April 24, 2017

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

UNFPA’s programs have a record of success, cutting by half the number of women dying from complications during pregnancy or childbirth in volatile areas.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) April 04, 2017

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

For many women and girls across the world, access to UNFPA’s critical services is truly the difference between life and death... UNFPA fills a critically important role in humanitarian and conflict response.

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) April 04, 2017

THOUGHT LEADERS

Absent solid U.S. funding for peacekeeping, we can expect to have less stability, more war and thus more threats to the U.S. homeland. Retreating from peacekeeping leaves the door open for China to step in. Given the relatively modest price tag for U.S. participation in this mostly effective tool for peace, U.N. peacekeeping seems a good deal.

Lise Morjé Howard, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University March 31, 2017