What the world’s leaders actually said — and how it compares to how their countries actually voted.

One event, not everything

We focus on a single moment each year: the General Assembly general debate. That focus is what makes the comparisons here possible.

Comparable across decades

Speeches are scored on the same criteria across the archive, so you can track how a country’s tone and priorities have shifted over time — not just read one year in isolation.

Words next to actions

Every country’s speeches sit alongside its actual votes on resolutions and its treaty ratifications — so rhetoric and record can be checked against each other.