"I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need."

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Source : Speech to the World Health Assembly, www.who.int. November 9, 2006.

Margaret Chan

#Impact Quotes #Keys Quotes #Organization Quotes

“Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.”
“The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.”
“It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.”
“The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.”
“Softness to traitors will destroy us all.”
“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.”
“My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."”
“It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.”

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