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" 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. "
Kofi Annan
End
Opportunity
Leadership
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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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" On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen. "
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" We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. "
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" Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. "
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" Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. "
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" Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies. "
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" We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. "
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" What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. "
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" Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. "
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" I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist. "
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" To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience. "
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" 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. "
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Gender
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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