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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. "
Kofi Annan
Problem
Waiting
Change
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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? "
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United Nations
" If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development. "
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" Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like? "
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Reputation
" Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road. "
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Fighter
Sometimes
Slide
" If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom. "
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Liberty
Should
Freedom
" I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it. "
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Moment
War
" 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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Choose
Profit
" 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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Universal
Agreement
Country
" 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
Goal
" In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda. "
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People
Greatest
Need
" 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. "
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Advice
Work
Accept
" 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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Believe
Will
" 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. "
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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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Education
Family
" Change is a process which has to be managed. "
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Change
Which
Process
" 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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Spring
Process
Me
" We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. "
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Need
Leave
Future
" 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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Follow
Always
Important
" We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution. "
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Moving Forward
People
Moving
" 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. "
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Human
Worth
" As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them. "
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Problems
Long
" 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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Integrity
Challenges
Democracy
" One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king. "
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Move On
King
Character
" We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. "
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Find
Will
" 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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Interest
Sometimes
Collective