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

topic: Goal, Usual, Development, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

- Eveline Herfkens

topic: People, Goal, Development, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

- Kemal Dervis

topic: Goal, Promise, Progress, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Hero, Helping Others, Past, Millennium Development Goals, Invaluable

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

topic: Government, People, Goal, Joint Efforts, Millennium Development Goals

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

topic: Thinking, Goal, Leader, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

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

topic: Years, Goal, Magic, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

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

topic: Military, Gdp, Goal, Gross Domestic Product, Military Spending

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

topic: Goal, Poverty, Firsts, Millennium Development Goals, Common Purpose

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

- Carl Lewis

topic: Race, Goal, Finals, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

- Martin Khor

topic: Country, Democracy, Benefits, Millennium Development Goals, Civil Society

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

source: Source: www.opendemocracy.net

topic: Mean, Rights, People, Millennium Development Goals

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

topic: Goal, Development, Deeds, Millennium Development Goals, Fine Words