Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

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

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

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

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?

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.