Usually, when you look around the world, people are killing each other, fighting over scarce resources. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
