Top 38 Quotes by Kofi Annan

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

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

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.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

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.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

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.