- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is compromise.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
- Dayton
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020