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

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• ‟ I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

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• ‟ We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

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

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• ‟ If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

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• ‟ When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

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• ‟ My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

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