Boutros Boutros-Ghali

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

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

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.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.