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Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. -- Fatos Nano
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times. -- Fatos Nano
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community. -- Emma Bonino
Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that. -- Fatos Nano
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. -- Fatos Nano
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves. -- Fatos Nano
I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map. -- Oscar Wilde
As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania? -- Eddie Mair
Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe. -- John Bolton
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning. -- John Buchan
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. -- Marni Jackson
[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania. -- Paul Newman
I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow. -- Alan Furst
I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania. -- Dan Jenkins
Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare. -- Paul Theroux
Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans. -- Dimitrije Tucovic
I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life. -- Ismail Kadare
I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time. -- Mother Teresa
My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania. -- Masiela Lusha
It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors. -- Ismail Kadare
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved. -- Edi Rama
I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance. -- Georgi Parvanov
The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania. -- Ismail Kadare
If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana. -- Ismail Kadare
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you. -- Paul Theroux

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