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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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" 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. "

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

" No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy. "

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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. "

" National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it. "

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" Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights. "

" Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked. "

" We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter. "

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" When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate. "