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“So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Yesterday, the country of Kosovo unveiled an 11-foot tall statue of former President Clinton. Yeah. That's right. The Clinton statue is so life-like, it's already been slapped 12 times.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.”

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Author:Tony Snow

“It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style”

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Author:Jurgen Habermas

“The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.”

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Author:Martti Ahtisaari

“In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin”

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Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians”

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Author:Boris Yeltsin

“Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.”

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Author:Fatos Nano

“Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.”

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Author:Fatos Nano

“I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.”

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Author:Josip Broz Tito

“I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.”

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Author:Eliot Engel

“Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.”

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Author:Novak Djokovic

“The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.”

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Author:Atifete Jahjaga

“We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.”

“Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.”

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Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens