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

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"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."

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

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"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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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Why talk when you can paint?"

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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."

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"I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox."

Jonathan Bennett, British Philosopher

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"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."

Eric Berne, American Psychologist

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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

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"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding."

Robert A. Brady, American Politician

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"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."

Helen Gurley Brown, American Editor

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