Eliot Engel Quotes

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

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.

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

Forty million Arabs are going to push four hundred thousand Jews into the sea. And that's all there is to it. Oil—that is the side we ought to be on.

Give the Serbs 48 hours, and if they don't release the hostages, bomb them to hell.