Mia Mottley Quotes

Are we really going to leave Scotland without the commitment to ambition that is sorely needed to save lives and to save our planet? Or are we so blinded and hardened that we can no longer appreciate the cries of humanity?

We do not want that dreaded death sentence, and we have come here today to say, 'Try harder,'

the world must claim ground, secure it and move forward. “We need collective partnerships. We need new voices to inspire and to influence.”

Our world stands at a fork in the road; one no less significant than when the United Nations was formed in 1945. But then the majority of countries here did not exist, we exist now. The difference is we want to exist a 100 years from now,

We are trespassing on ground that is best left in our history and not our future. And to this, we add the insidious threats of terrorism and, now, the existential threat of climate change,

“If we can find the will to send people to the moon and solve male baldness, we can solve simple problems like letting our people eat”.

The best leaders not only create their vision, but also inspire others toward action.

If our existence is to mean anything, then we must act in the interest of all of our people who are dependent on us,

To ask us (Barbados) to continue carrying the battle against the backdrop of the (COVID-19) pandemic and not having contributed to the crisis to greenhouse gases is really unacceptable. We can't fight the pandemic or climate crisis from a national perspective. All of us have to cooperate globally, or we're not going to win this battle.

Let us choose to end climate change. We will achieve it. Human ingenuity will enable us to do so. But we cannot wait. Let us bring it forward.

The world needs us to rise up and change our behaviour.

And if we don't, we will allow the path of greed and selfishness to sow the seeds of our common destruction,

“If I use the speech prepared for me to deliver today, it would be a repetition– s repetition of what you’ve heard from others, and also from me”.

Because it is the right thing to do - not just politically but morally,

Trust and inclusion are indivisible… We need a New Internationalism, a truly inclusive United Nations and international system.