"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, Egyptian Public Servant

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Explore more quotes by Boutros Boutros Ghali

"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."

Genocide, Germany

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

President,

"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."

Beginning, Europe, Genocide, Tools

"But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information."

Decision, Information, states, Trying

"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."

Time, Acting, American, Consideration

"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."

Change, Peace

"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."

African, Fatigue, Now, Today

"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."

People, Accident, Will

"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."

Failure, Nations, Security, United

"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"

State, states, Troops, United, Will

Exlpore more Father quotes

"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

Father,

"My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related."

Loni Anderson, American Actress

Father, Dad, Parents, Smoking

"My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true."

John Astin, American Actor

Father, Dad, Blood

"Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."

Thomas Brooks, American Football Coach

Father,

"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."

Philip Warren Anderson, American Scientist

Father, Impression, EnglEurope

"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom."

Tim Allen, American Comedian

Father, Dad, Friendship, Humor, Mom

"And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process."

Rene Auberjonois, American Actor

Father, Being

"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

Father, Sons

"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."

Michael Beschloss, American Historian

Father, People, Assassination, Will

"When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming."

Rosanne Cash, American Musician

Father, Dad, Songs