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"But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information."
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"We've made our decisions, We've taken our choices, What's left, is only a hand-full of emotions."
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"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
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"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
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"It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined."
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"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."
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"Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?""
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"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
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"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"
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"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."
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"But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information."
Decision
"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."
Failure
"It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody."
Father
"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."
President
"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace."
Change
"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."
Genocide
"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."
Talk
"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 years ago."
African
"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 not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."
Beginning
"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"
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