Ghali Quotes

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

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The biggest mistake U.S. forces made was to disband the Iraqi army. - Maj. Muhammed Ghalib

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence. - Butros Butros-Ghali

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months. - Ghalib

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

Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit. - Ghalib

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. - Boutros Boutros-Ghali