Bernard Kouchner Quotations

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting, ... They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

I was not a typical international civil servant I confess -- ask the Kosovo Albanians, ask the Serbs,

we have been making real progress, significant steps toward stability and democracy. ... The world did not intervene to make Kosovo safe for revenge and intolerance.

To manage a non-governmental organization is certainly worse than managing a firm,

This outrageous act against innocent civilians puts in danger all efforts at democracy in Kosovo. I deplore this crime which occurred in an area where our efforts at retaining a multi-ethnic society in Kosovo has been so intensively focused.

Chirac seems completely out of the loop. It's all very strange. As a doctor, I can't say whether he's in bad physical shape. But as a citizen, I can say he looks weaker and weaker.