Kosovo Quotes:

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Independence, Want, Facts, Kosovo

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Yugoslavia, Republic, Doe, Kosovo, Privatization

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

- Eliot Engel

topic: Determination, Believe, Self, Self Determination, Kosovo

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Country, Riches, Granted, Kosovo, Small Countries

Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

topic: Mother, Virgins, Kosovo

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene [in Kosovo]. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody [Clinton] is doing something.

- Mike Farrell

topic: Thinking, Community, Levels, Kosovo

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

- Gordon Smith

topic: Effort, President, Bail, Kosovo, President Clinton

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Believe, Law, Consideration, Kosovo, Privatization

I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

- Vaclav Havel

source: "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

topic: Believe, Character, Rights, Kosovo, Federation

There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Home, Army, Kosovo

What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls  but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Wall, War, Air, Kosovo, Reversal

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

- Emma Bonino

topic: Destiny, Unions, European Union, Kosovo

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Country, Europe, Today, Kosovo, Eastern Europe

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

- Fatos Nano

topic: Mean, Air, Tanks, Kosovo, Installation

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true,

- Atifete Jahjaga

topic: Dream, Believe, Membership, Kosovo

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

- Jello Biafra

topic: Mean, Hands, People, Kosovo, Rwanda

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Air, Sea, Maritime, Kosovo

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.

- Slobodan Milosević

topic: Stars, People, Waiting, Kosovo

My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Independent, America, Usa, Kosovo, Nato

The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Determination, Real, War, Kosovo

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,

- Martti Ahtisaari

topic: Taken, Views, Groups, Kosovo, Guidelines

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.

- Tony Snow

topic: Thinking, Vietnam, Next, Kosovo

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Country, Order, Different, Kosovo, Positive Image

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

- Novak Djokovic

topic: Imagine, Cradle, Kosovo, Serbia

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: Mean, Europe, Currency, Kosovo

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Kosovo, Psychopathic, Serbia

We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.

- Barry Farber

topic: Israel, Pie, America, Kosovo, Elected Officials

In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.

- Anne-Marie Slaughter

topic: Ethnicity, Long, Thought Provoking, Kosovo, Serbia

The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

- Anne-Marie Slaughter

source: Anne-Marie Slaughter @SlaughterAM, twitter.com. February 24, 2011.

topic: Massacres, Kosovo, International Community, Rwanda, Arab Spring

The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

- George Friedman

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Sea, Lines, Want, Kosovo, Serbia

Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

- Tony Blair

source: Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

topic: Successful, Loss, Simple, Kosovo, Removal

I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Jobs, Moving, Fighting, Kosovo, Pacific

Islam is one of the fastest-growing faiths within America, and America needs to show that we're not anti-Islam. We are for, for people being free and having opportunity everywhere, that... We did that in Bosnia, we did that in Kosovo, we did that in numerous other places in the world.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Opportunity, America, People, Kosovo, Anti Islam

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Kosovo

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: War, Moving, Eras, Kosovo

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Asian, Financial, Kosovo

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Believe, Race, Kosovo, Resumption

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

- Ibrahim Rugova

topic: President, Population, Employment, Kosovo, Expertise

Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Country, Feet, Yesterday, Kosovo, President Clinton

I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Military, War, Believe, Kosovo, Military Industrial Complex

Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Country, War, Suicidal, Kosovo, Economic Policy

In fact, it was stated early in the first Bush [presidency], Bush I, in one of their documents they pointed out in the future, US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops. And Iif you take a look, that's what's done. Look at Panama, for instance, over a couple of days; and Kosovo, no American troops.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Couple, War, Enemy, Kosovo, American Troops

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Book, Bridges, Microsoft, Kosovo

For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Gps, Track, Leader, Major Problems, Kosovo

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Gps, Track, Car, Kosovo

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Gps, Roles, Kosovo

Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Space, Significance, Kosovo, One For Me

For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Military, War, Deception, Kosovo, Deterrence

Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Reality, Faces, Kosovo

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

- Paul Virilio

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: War, Media, Manipulation, Kosovo