Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Water will be more important than oil this century

— 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…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

— 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…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia,…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there…

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The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali