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" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen. "

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

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. "

" 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? "

" Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. "

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

Kofi Annan

Women

Development

" 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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "