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" Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. "

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" To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience. "

" Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. "

" As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them. "

" Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like? "

" We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. "

" I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support. "

" I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist. "

" Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. "

" If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? "

" Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. "

" The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments. "

" 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. "

" The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country. "

" I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow. "

" We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. "

" What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. "

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

" If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development. "

" We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. "

" Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. "

" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "

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

" If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries. "

" In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. "

" The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed. "

" 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. "

" There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. "

" I think it is important to speak out. "

" Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. "

" The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. "