Kofi Annan Quotes

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My belief is that policy cannot be piecemeal.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

People must work in unison.

Structure the national security apparatus so that … they are all singing off the same sheet of music.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

All the citizens both of Poland and of Lithuania ought to form an indivisible whole .... They must love each other with a deep, sincere, fraternal love, like the members of one body, like inhabitants of one and the same republic.

I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.

The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

States working together can achieve more than what even the most powerful state can accomplish by itself.

The international body must have the institutions and powers it needs to do what it is created to do; in other words it must be boldly and openly set up as a super-state on a level above the national sovereignties, and that, in turn, means that the Member States must have accepted in advance as much limitation and subordination of their particular sovereignties as this superior sovereign power requires.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

If you have a coalition, you must have a little give.

A leader who has to go it alone is no longer leading anybody.

How, sir! Is this enormous evil ever to be eradicated, if every nation is thus prudentially to wait till the concurrence of all the world shall have been obtained?

There is no way for two leaders to function together at any one time

A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.

Republican committal for an Association of Nations, cooperating in sublime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force, determined to add to security through international law, so clarified that no misconstruction can be possible without affronting world honor.

The most essential thing in my government is that the ministers and heads of departments proceed in the same direction, think and act like myself.

It's going to take every American playing on the same team - and everyone trying to be the best version of themselves - to make America great.

The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated.

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.