Water will be more important than oil this century

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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…

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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 …

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali