Famous Quotes & Sayings

simply put, the Dayton accords need to be modernized. They served Bosnia well over the last decade, but they were never meant to be immutable or set in stone.

Because of the decline in deliveries we are also forced to cut gas transit to Serbia and Bosnia by a similar rate of over 40 percent.

Jacques Chirac

France is ready to help Bosnia on the road to reconciliation, ... man of peace who symbolizes a tolerant Bosnia finally reconciled with itself.

I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.

Christopher Hitchens

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

Martin Short

He is a complete goof and so stylish, I mean everything about Franz is about chic, it doesn't really matter if there's peace in Bosnia as much as if they're beautifully dressed at the peace table.

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

If the European countries that are there in Bosnia now all decide to pull out ... when we take out the land forces, I think it will make it very difficult to get the vote to expand NATO in the Senate.

Kofi Annan

Yet again, we face the abominable practice of 'ethnic cleansing' only a few years after it transformed the demography of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... The Serbian authorities must halt such actions.

Slobodan Milosevic

I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),

Michael Ignatieff

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.

Richard Holbrooke

The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.

And because they have been unwilling to intervene early in the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo, they have ended up having to intervene -- in particular in Kosovo -- in a much greater fashion, a much stronger fashion later on after the crisis has grown, has expanded and the killing has gotten very serious.

Warren Christopher

On this Thanksgiving weekend our joint work has made it possible for the people of Bosnia to spend New Year's Day in peace for the first time in four years.

Rather we are here because the Belgrade authorities have taken the non-Serbs of Bosnia on a path to hell, a path littered with dead bodies, broken families and lost futures.

This case is before the court ... to do away with this ... falsifying of history. We are here because the Belgrade authorities have taken the non-Serbs of Bosnia on a path to hell, a path littered with dead bodies, broken families... and lost futures.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

Richard Perle

The situation in Bosnia is such that a safe withdrawal of American forces can be made effective. The scale of the problem is now such that it is entirely manageable by the Europeans.

Mark Burnett

That person did have previous psychological problems. He had broken up with his wife, was a Bosnian refugee and, unfortunately, took his life well before the show ever aired.

In Bosnia in 2002 there were 55 percent, in the parliamentary elections in Colombia 42 percent, India 59 percent, Switzerland 42 percent.

Boris Tadic

I trust police and military reports that I am getting today: that Mladic is somewhere between Bosnia and Serbia,

Danis Tanovic

I call it Bosnian minimalism. I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in the square.

Richard Holbrooke

It was his ruthlessness and vision that helped to create Bosnia and Herzegovina,

It's sad that justice in a way has been cheated. He was the first head of state to be given a trial, he's been given a very fair trial, it's taken an extraordinarily long time. I think people everywhere, but particularly in the former Yugoslavia and in Bosnia were wanting this verdict. They now will feel cheated and it's a tragedy in a way that justice has not been able to give the verdict which we was important to hear.

Gloria Steinem

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Boris Trajkovski

If NATO troops stayed on, this would only give us a sense of false security ... and create another Bosnia or Kosovo in the Balkans.

Richard Holbrooke

It's hard exaggerate this. If it had been for Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia would not exist today ... He was the visionary.

Strobe Talbott

This is part of an ongoing series of consultations we have had with the Russian government and we have a very broad and deep and important agenda, ... I am sure the topic of Bosnia will come up. Russia and the United States are working closely together to try to bring peace to the area. But we have a lot of other things to talk about.