"When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have th..." — Kofi Annan

No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.