I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Politics is compromise.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

We have invented a new human right here the right to return home after a war.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk he does not lay eggs he is too weak to pull the plough he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Acting on a blue screen is awful.

The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

I think every industry is a male-dominated industry. Whether it is Tollywood or Bollywood or India as a whole, it is male-dominated. We stay in India, and it has been patriarchal society.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.

I will benefit from being a part of this industry, but I also want the industry to benefit from me.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.'

Remind yourself that you dont have to do what everyone else is doing.

Little boys are like snowflakes, there are no two alike.

In Zen we have no gurus.