881 Quotes by Kofi Annan

We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not.

As chief administrative officer, I have to take responsibility for the failings revealed.

I don't expect a miraculous solution, ... As I've said, we shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that at this round we're going to be able to solve the Cyprus crisis.

to deal with harrowing memories and emotional scars.

reflecting our mutual commitment to a stable, prosperous and equitable world.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating,

In a world of intense economic competition, shifting populations and shrinking distances, the pressures of living together with people of different cultures and different beliefs from one's own are very real,

As a final resort, in the event of a continuing and persistent deadlock, the parties have invited me to use my discretion to finalize the text to be submitted to referenda on the basis of my plan,

I do not understand these Ivorian leaders, these men who believe they are capable of leading a country, who are seeking to become president of a country they are in the process of destroying.