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

Politics is compromise.

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

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

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.

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.