Quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Page 1

Only stupid people don't change their minds.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Mind
People
Stupid
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Water will be more important than oil this century
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Important
Oil
Water
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The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
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War
Middle East
Water
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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
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Genocide
Machetes
Realizing
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The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
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Stealth
Violence
Way
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I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Predecessors
Successors
Used
Neither
Predecessor
Successor
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We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Agents
Destruction
World
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I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Believe
Having Patience
Problem
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For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Clinton
Discussion
President Clinton
Rwanda
According
Marginal
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Behinds
Rwanda
Africa
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The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Cairo
Lessons
Way
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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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Able
Chamber
Gas
Genocide
Germany
Realizing
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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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Failure
Aggressive
Council
Enough
Members
Nations
Retrospective
Security
Security Council
United
United Nations
Maybe
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Fatigue
Problem
Today
Years
Years Ago
Africa
African
Concerning
Worse
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In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Prime
Prime Minister
Troops
Yugoslavia
Additional
French
Forces
Minister
Proposed
Send
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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?
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Infrastructure
Planes
Transport
Troops
Real Problem
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It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Journey
Knowledge
Essentials
Long
Rights
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
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Peace
Democracy
Justice
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Excuse
Always People Will
Accident
Unfortunately
People Will Always
Ngos
Save
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Involved
Peacekeeping
Somalia
Began
Discovered
Operation
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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 / Politician
Cambodia
Disruption
Rwanda
Peace Process
Salvador
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Courage
Consideration
Reality
Retrospective
Views
Writing
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While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Democracy
Long
Principles
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We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Council
Decided
Involved
Military
Rwanda
Security
Security Council
Troops
Uganda
Peace Process
Presence
Simple Reason
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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.
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Power
War
Usa
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Armenia
Europe
Genocide
Point Of View
Realizing
Tools
Views
Beginning
Definition
View
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Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
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Creating
Hands
Mean
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Administration
Consideration
Demand
Involved
Time Believe I Believe
Recommendation
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Attention
Discrimination
Europe
Genocide
People
Turkeys
Africa
African
Basic
World Problems People
Problems
Received
Turkey
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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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Decision
Position
Member
Oppose
Weaker
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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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Chinese
France
Mistake
Prime Minister
World Me Father
World Me Important
Basis
Bush
Discovered
World Father Me
Leaders
Mandate
Minister
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Class
Country
Would Be
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Accepted
Impression
Negotiating
Rwanda
Status Quo
Considered
Easily
Project
Small
Maintain
Operation
Quo
Second-Class
Small Country
Solved
Status
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I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.
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Egypt
Other Cultures
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