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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Change is a process which has to be managed. "

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

" 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. "

" The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "