The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

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

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.

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Water will be more important than oil this century

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

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