Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the…

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start…

— Jonathan Sacks

I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights -…

— Mary Robinson

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for…

— Anonymous

If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political…

— Thoraya Obaid

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale…

— Kofi Annan

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its…

— Kofi Annan

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

— Eveline Herfkens

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

— William Barrett

My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there…

— Jeffrey Sachs

These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on…

— Kofi Annan

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even…

— Ban Ki-moon

...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better,…

— Kemal Dervis

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

— Martin Khor

The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of…

— Dale Jamieson