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More Balkans Quotes

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• We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill
• From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective… — Ban Ki-moon
• Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where… — Shana Alexander
• The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern… — David Nabarro
• The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto von Bismarck
• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
• If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States… — Pat Buchanan
• Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black… — Ahmet Davutoglu
• After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the… — Sibel Edmonds
• If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the… — Wilhelm Keitel
• There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and… — Ivica Dacic
• Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the… — Todor Zhivkov

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