Kofi Annan quotes
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.
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.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
I came here to show support for all the millions of people in the world who stand to benefit if the Millennium Development Goals are reached, especially the children who will be saved from malaria or Aids, who will grow up healthy, go to school and have the chance to earn their living and enjoy life.
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.
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?
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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.
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.
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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.
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