Kofi Annan Quotes
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We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.
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I arrived there straight from Africa' - and I can tell you, Minnesota soon taught me the value of a thick overcoat, a warm scarf and even ear-muffs!
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
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I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.
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We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
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Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.
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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
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The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.
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When you leave one home for another, there are always lessons to be learnt. And I had more to learn when I moved on from Minnesota to the United Nations - the indispensable common house of the entire human family, which has been my main home for the last 44 years.
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
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If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
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It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.
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The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
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Thank you, Senator Hagel for that wonderful introduction. It is a great honour to be introduced by such a distinguished legislator.
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He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
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The report by a UN commission on Darfur demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.
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Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
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In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.