Quotes by Shirley Temple

• We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.
• I ran for Congress, just once.
• I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
• When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
• Good luck needs no explanation.
• I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.