Bosnian Quotations

My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.

I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

He has been transferred by the authorities in Belgrade. We believe he's a Bosnian Serb.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),

The accused intended to destroy the Bosnian Muslim population in part or in whole in order to achieve those aims.

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.

At the most senior level the relations are non-existent. At lower levels, contacts are spotty. We have evidence that Bosnian Serb liaison officers are packing their bags and departing from some locations.

The situation has changed fundamentally on the ground, certainly this week, but I think in general over the last couple of months in Bosnia, ... If the Bosnian Serbs felt at one time they could achieve a military victory in this conflict, they certainly don't believe that today and no one else does either.

That person did have previous psychological problems. He had broken up with his wife, was a Bosnian refugee and, unfortunately, took his life well before the show ever aired.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

It's a tricky thing to deal with. Some of the foreign forces have married Bosnian woman, some of them really blended in, melted into the society.

In forcing people to leave, the Bosnian Serb authorities have behaved abominably, and the actions of the Federation authorities have been far from reassuring,

I call it Bosnian minimalism. I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in the square.

The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.