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

— Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

— Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

— Kofi Annan

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

— Kofi Annan

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

— Kofi Annan

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

— Kofi Annan

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.

— Kofi Annan

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.

— Kofi Annan

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

— Kofi Annan

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

— Kofi Annan