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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."

"They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press."

"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together."

"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."

"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"

"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."

"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations."

"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut."

"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."
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