I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.