Accelerate Quote by 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

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

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

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

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

— Eveline Herfkens

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

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty.…

— Ban Ki-moon

You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not…

— Hamadoun Toure

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

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

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

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

— Carl Lewis