Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in…

— Annie Potts

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think…

— Jeremy Thomas

“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic, and this…

— Christopher Hitchens

In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved…

— Bertrand Russell

We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now…

— Dimitrije Tucovic

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms…

— Madeleine Albright

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

— Todor Zhivkov

“If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children…

— Annie Ward

“War is a war. Everywhere is hard and bloody, but the Balkans in it bring their coloring and passion. Someone happened to be on…

— Zlatko Topčić

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's…

— Miroslav Penkov

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of…

— Sheryl Crow

There a lot of occasions when Albanians cause trouble, but then we are also very nice people. People sometimes forget that there are good…

— Granit Xhaka

“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.”

— Otto von Bismarck

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

— Winston Churchill