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I believe it will take time to...

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

Democracy is an objective. Dem...

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

The next war in the Middle Eas...

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

The failure of the United Nati...

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

Rwanda was considered a second...

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

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We were not realizing that, wi...

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

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There is a greater fatigue con...

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

So this is why I'm always say ...

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

The problem is when you are wr...

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

While the broad principles of ...

While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

I will continue to work for th...

I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions

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Only stupid people don't chang...

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

The lesson I learned in Cairo ...

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

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It has long been recognized th...

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

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We must rid the world of the s...

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

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In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for a...

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

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I used to say I never talk abo...

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

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For us, genocide was the gas c...

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

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For President Clinton, accordi...

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

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But I believe that the DPKO at...

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

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