Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Peter Erben

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

David Owen

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.

Richard Holbrooke

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

Richard Holbrooke

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

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.

Jim Hooper

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.

Luis Restrepo

Our main concern at this time is to gain trust. Colombia can't take any more setbacks.

Jan Schakowsky

If you look at the U.S. government data, our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much cocaine in the United States as there was 6 years ago.

Joe O'Keefe

Slovakia was a successful reformer, as was Colombia (even though) they have a low per-capita income,

John McCain

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

Neena Moorjani

This is not unusual. Just in the past few months, we've postponed rounds with Ecuador three times, Panama twice and Colombia once.

Anne Patterson

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

Noam Chomsky

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Raul Reyes

The government of Colombia and even the United States do the same thing, ... If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail. Here we don't have jails, so we detain people.

Massimo Franco

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.

Guillaume Soro

Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30.

Duncan Hunter

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Karl Eikenberry

I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we're going to have a record turnout,

Jyoti Basu

I don't know why are we having elections in five phases. Maybe because workers and officers of the State have helped us in implementing our policies.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Manish Gupta

I am expecting more to be happening here. In the elections, employment of people and development are going to be the main issues.

Nicola Sturgeon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

Chris Kattan

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

Tasneem Aslam

We take the last statement of the Indian spokesman welcoming our initiative.

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Rick James

I went to India, lived, and studied.

Robert Trout

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Sanjay Dutt

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

Salman Khurshid

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Salman Rushdie

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

Salman Rushdie

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.