"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."

Expectation, Justice

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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."

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"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

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"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."

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"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."

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"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."

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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."

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"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."

Agreement,

"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."

People, Attention, Criticism, Liberal

"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."

Truth,

"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?"

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"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."

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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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"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."

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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."

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"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."

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"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."

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