Kofi Annan Quotes

Not really a first thing I will buy, but the first thing I would do is take care of my mother and my family and then go from there. Whatever she needs. Not so much a house or car or material things, just making sure everything is taken care of from a family standpoint.

The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

The welfare of America is closely bound up with the welfare of mankind

I like looking after my family.

How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.

All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work.

Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

My plan includes Dependent Care Savings Accounts to encourage savings and help families meet their needs for caring for both children and elders.

That was the one thing I had going for me. Taking care of your family.

Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.