“What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collec...” — Kofi Annan Quote

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

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.

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.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.