Top 38 Quotes by Kofi Annan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.