Bosnia Quotes

You cannot let this kind of thing go on any longer. How can you tolerate those horrible pictures that came out of Bosnia? - Madeleine Albright

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. - Allyson Schwartz

Yet again, we face the abominable practice of 'ethnic cleansing' only a few years after it transformed the demography of Bosnia and Herzegovina... The Serbian authorities must halt such actions. - Kofi Annan

When we were in Bosnia, my dad would go to work, and when he would leave, he always would tell me to study and study hard. He worked so we could move. - Igor Iveljic

When we left Bosnia and went to Germany, we could only stay there four years, or we had to go back to Bosnia. My dad knew there was no future in Bosnia so we decided to come to the United States. - Igor Iveljic

When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical. - Joe Sacco

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. - Warren Christopher

We're here to call upon the president, President Clinton, to ensure that all war criminals in Bosnia are arrested and brought to justice. Today we're here to say there's much more to be done to bring a just and stable peace to Bosnia, if we do not arrest the perpetrators of these crimes of genocide, we'll risk the investment of billions of dollars, now its about seven billion [dollars], thousands of military and civilian personnel, and our prestige and influence as the greatest country on the face of the earth. - Bob Dole

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met. - Nicholas Burns

We understand that Serbs will be elected who will continue with the same policy to divide Bosnia... but we will have them around the table fighting with arguments instead of fighting with guns. - Christiane Amanpour