881 Quotes by Kofi Annan

We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.

They are concerned about the Iraqi population and civilian casualties. They are also anxious that assistance should get to the cities and to the people as soon as possible. But of course, they are worried as to how all this is going to turn out, which nobody really knows.

I really hope we don't get to that stage, ... I don't even want to contemplate the possibility of a failure.

But they are not running forward to contribute to this force, so we have to take the forces we get.

We are taking a medium to longer term view rather than pulling out immediately after elections.

The Americans are usually very generous in assisting in other crises,

This moment belongs, above all , to the people of East Timor who have so richly earned their freedom.

In the midst of the road map process, when each party should be making good-faith confidence-building gestures, the barrier's construction in the West Bank cannot, in this regard, be seen as anything but a deeply counterproductive act,

In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.