Millennium Development Goals Quotes

• The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

  Kofi Annan

  Goal, Usual, Development

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• The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

  Eveline Herfkens

  People, Goal, Development

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• ...si queremos avanzar significativamente en la consecución de estos Objetivos y mantenernos fieles a la promesa que hizo el mundo de construir un mundo mejor y más justo para todos, no hay tiempo que perder para poner en marcha las políticas y los recursos necesarios para alcanzar estas metas.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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• It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

  Kofi Annan

  Government, People, Goal

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• If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

  Thoraya Obaid

  Thinking, Political Will, Goal

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• My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Goal, Magic

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• World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Military, Gdp, Goal

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• We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Common Purpose, Goal, Firsts

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• Únase a mí en la carrera final para aplastar la pobreza y alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de la ONU.

  Carl Lewis

  Race, Goal, Finals

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• La globalización en su forma actual no puede aportar los beneficios que se esperan de ella. La sociedad civil, especialmente en los países en desarrollo, debe garantizar que así sea.

  Martin Khor

  Country, Expectations, Democracy

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• I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights - that includes development experts and economists who are very keen to implement the UN Millennium Development Goals. They've told me quite frankly, that they don't know exactly what a human rights approach is.

  Mary Robinson

  Media, Derechos, Personas

  Fuente: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

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• Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Goal, Fine Words, Development

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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