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

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights….

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction.

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 negotiati….

Only stupid people don't change their minds..

Water will be more important than oil this century.

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 yo….

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks o….

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 ….

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 ….

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..

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 ….

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….

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 no….

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and o….

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide..

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….

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa..

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence..

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..