Slobodan Milosevic Quotations

we believe that the Serb people would be better served by having a democratically elected government that represents their values.

What they (U.N. prosecutors) fail to say is that the activities of the Serbian people were activities aimed at defense,

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

move military troops into areas along the border with Serbia.

No one has the right to beat you! No one will ever beat you again.

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

I am very aware that you will definitely not wish to testify in my favor. Neither do I expect this. I do expect you, however, to be willing to allow your testimony to contribute to the establishment of truth before an institution whose formation you supported.

I am the moral winner, ... I am proud of everything I did for my people and my country, and everything I did was honest.

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

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

It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.

We won't let them inside. We won't let them arrest him,

We wanted to save as many lives as possible ... Serb lives and Croat lives and Muslim lives.

an outrage against a whole nation and a whole people.

As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out,

Foreign forces will not dare attack us again, unless they try to come here with an invitation from our domestic enemies,

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.

It must have dawned on him that NATO can keep going longer than him.

Nothing has changed, and the situation is very serious. ... We certainly don't agree,

The war which is being conducted against this country is now being conducted with (Western) money.

They were targeting peasants who were plowing their fields outside the village. This was a savage game where people were targets.

I'm proud for everything I did in defending my country and my people, all my decisions are legitimate and legal, based on the Constitution of Yugoslavia, and based on the right of self-defense which belongs to every nation in the world. And their decisions - NATO leaders' decisions were all criminal.

I consider the decision to be utterly unjust.

I cannot call my next witness. I cannot sit here any longer. Everybody knows I have been coming here with great difficulty.

I don't need to imagine, I see no problem with that.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

I'm discriminated against all the time.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.