Kofi annan

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

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

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I...

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.