It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
Kofi AnnanThe fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.
Kofi AnnanWe have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi AnnanThe report produced by my commission, the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, in 2012 showed the corrosive impact of money in US politics, for example, which undermines the legitimacy of the democratic system in citizens' eyes. Such perceptions partly explain the rise of a phenomenon like the success of Donald Trump.
Kofi Annan