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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."
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"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side."
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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
"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."
Talk
"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
"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
"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
"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence."
Peace
"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
"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
"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
Genocide
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