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Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia -- Josip Broz Tito
The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare. -- Ed Begley, Jr.
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country. -- Emir Kusturica
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else. -- Bobby Fischer
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. -- Franjo Tudjman
America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia. -- Bobby Fischer
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. -- Sydney Pollack
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
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. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future. -- Josip Broz Tito
We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other. -- Stjepan Mesic
How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto. -- Joaquin Andujar
What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region. -- Vali Nasr
Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess. -- Bobby Fischer
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. -- Ibrahim Rugova
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. -- Christiane Amanpour
I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine. -- Kurt Cobain
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. -- Emir Kusturica
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that. -- Bobby Fischer
The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia). -- Edd Doerr
In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. -- Noam Chomsky
Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia -- Chris Patten
I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood. -- Rebecca West
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. -- Franjo Tudjman
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. -- Franjo Tudjman
Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not. -- Ivica Dacic
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia. -- Emir Kusturica
We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did. -- Jose Antonio Camacho
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated. -- Josip Broz Tito
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
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement. -- Stanley Fischer
I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life. -- Jesse Jackson
There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years. -- Ivica Dacic
There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia. -- Tea Obreht
I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world. -- Bruce Chatwin
You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best. -- Lee Van Cleef
The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia. -- Vladimir Putin
In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God . -- John C. Danforth
Aside from being a Latina, my family immigrated from Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia so I know all about that. I wouldn't be able to do what I do today if they didn't come to America. Everybody has an immigration story. -- Naya Rivera
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States. -- George Mikes
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to two fundamental issues: 'What are the accepted and applicable 'rules of world order,' and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?' -- Noam Chomsky

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