Bill Clinton Quotes

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.

Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear.

I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

These are not concentration camps, but transient centers …. You are witnessing a great moment in the history of the Serbian nation.

Bosnia and Herzegovina. Austria-Hungary reserves the right to annex these provinces at whatever moment she shall deem opportune.

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that was the thing that would happen in the future, someone phoning in what they were seeing on the scene. Whether it's the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Drudge Report or the BBC, all those reports, you have to assume there's a real person [who] has credibility.

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.

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

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.