881 Quotes by Kofi Annan

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

The status quo cannot work.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing development of the societies in which they live. And since its inception in 1948, AIESEC has contributed to this development by serving as an agent of positive change trough education and cultural exchange.