Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia. — Josip Broz Tito
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. — Ibrahim Rugova
When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget. — Isa Boletini
There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past. — Ivica Dacic
Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that. — Fatos Nano
Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. — Fatos Nano
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. — Emir Kusturica
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. — Emir Kusturica
Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. — Emma Bonino
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world. — Le Corbusier
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me. — Maajid Nawaz
Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well. — Hamid Karzai
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut. — Louis Simpson
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times. — Fatos Nano
Short Kosovo Quotes
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. — Ibrahim Rugova
Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia. — Slobodan Milosević
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized. — Ibrahim Rugova
Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. — Ibrahim Rugova
I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination. — Eliot Engel
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo. — Tony Snow
Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. — Emma Bonino
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner. — Eliot Engel
The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier. — Emma Bonino
Kosovo Image Quotes
Albania Quotes
Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans. — Dimitrije Tucovic
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves. — Fatos Nano
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. — Henry Noel Brailsford
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." — Edith Durham
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. — Marni Jackson
Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare. — Paul Theroux
I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania. — Dan Jenkins
Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe. — John Bolton
I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. — Oscar Wilde
As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania? — Eddie Mair
Bosnia Quotes
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. — Michael Fassbender
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. — Alija Izetbegovic
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. — Allyson Schwartz
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect. — David Petraeus
But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us. — Jean-Claude Juncker
Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. — Jill Dando
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. — Joe Bob Briggs
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. — Miep Gies
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. — Alija Izetbegovic
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. — Paddy Ashdown
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans. — Michel Chossudovsky
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. — Jello Biafra
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. — Ibrahim Rugova
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe. — Ibrahim Rugova
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life. — Paul Virilio
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that. — Gordon Smith
Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones. — Vladimir Putin
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes. — Fatos Nano
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them. — Slobodan Milosevic
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians — Boris Yeltsin
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo. — Fatos Nano
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. — Novak Djokovic
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise. — Ibrahim Rugova
There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks. — Paul Virilio
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that. — Emma Bonino
I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate. — Emma Bonino
The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves. — Ibrahim Rugova
However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space! — Paul Virilio
How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which they had themselves adopted and supported. Why could it have been done there, but not in Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Why not? — Vladimir Putin
The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power. — George Friedman
The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it. — Margaret Thatcher
[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore. — Christopher Hitchens
The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided. — Martti Ahtisaari
France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air. — Paul Virilio
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. — Anne-Marie Slaughter
Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world. — William J. Clinton
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true. — Atifete Jahjaga
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. — Fatos Nano
It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery. — Slobodan Milosevic
Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space. — Paul Virilio
I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something. — Mike Farrell
We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future. — Boris Trajkovski
The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo). — Ibrahim Rugova
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