Serbia Quotes - Page 2

• A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

  Ivica Dacic

  Agreement, Issues, Long

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• Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

  Ivica Dacic

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• If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.

  Tariq Ali

  Running, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

  John McCain

  Determination, Brother, Government

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• You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

  Emir Kusturica

  Thinking, Yugoslavia, Life Is

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• We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

  Tomislav Nikolic

  Country, Responsibility, Decision

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• As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

  Ivica Dacic

  Decision, Citizens, Injustice

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• As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important that the individuals involved in the death of the Bytyqi brothers are held accountable for their actions[.]

  Tim Bishop

  Brother, Moving, Past

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• Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Years, Iraq

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

  Michael Kirby

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

  Tim Bishop

  Country, Past, Europe

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• In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

  Emir Kusturica

  Hate, People, Understanding

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• Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

  Novak Djokovic

  Country, Couple, Athlete

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• My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Growing Up, Dna, Ideas

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.

  Javier Solana

  Events, Looks, Helping

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• One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in Catholic Croatia. Not in Orthodox Serbia. So they sent some trainers and a lot of money.

  Michael Scheuer

  Catholic, Bosnia, Croatia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Military, Yugoslavia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Reason, Balkans

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Ukraine

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• We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  War, Punishment, Enemy

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• The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.

  Carlos Mesa

  Army, Regimes, Greater

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• I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Croatia

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• Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

  Ivica Dacic

  Fighting, Agreement, Yugoslavia

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• The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Racism, President

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• [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

  Sorry, Iraq, Bosnia

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