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Boutros Boutros Ghali

"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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A.E. Samaan

"When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states."

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A.E. Samaan

"But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania."

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A.E. Samaan

"The United States is a beautiful place, you know?"

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A.E. Samaan

"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."

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A.E. Samaan

"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."

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A.E. Samaan

"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."

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A.E. Samaan

"Every chemical reaction has a transition state."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."

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A.E. Samaan

"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

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Boutros Boutros Ghali
"But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful."

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"When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all."

People

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"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?"

State

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"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."

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"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

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"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

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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Talk

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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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"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."

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"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."

President

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