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

  • It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

    "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 and other ways of being and living.

    "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.
  • 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.

  • A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

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

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

    "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.
  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    "Welcome to Sarajevo", 1997.
  • So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

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

  • The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  • Only stupid people don't change their minds.

    "The Change in the Administration's Position". Interview with Arnaud de Borchgrave, www.globalpolicy.org. November 11, 1996.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

  • Water will be more important than oil this century

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

  • 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: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.
  • But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  • Born: November 14, 1922
  • Died: February 16, 2016
  • Occupation: Politician