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" 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. "

Kofi Annan

Integrity

Challenges

Democracy

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" My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work. "

Kofi Annan

Advice

Work

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. "

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

" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "

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

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

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

" The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. "

Kofi Annan

Spring

Process

" We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. "

" 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. "

Kofi Annan

Strategy

Society

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. "

" Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N. "

Kofi Annan

Again

Problem

" 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. "

Kofi Annan

Always

Important

" 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? "

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

" Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment. "

" 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. "

Kofi Annan

Impact

Questions

" One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king. "

" 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. "

" More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. "

Kofi Annan

Women

Development

" We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. "

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