Slobodan Milosevic Quotes (90 Quotes)

will go for the brain as much as we'll go for the fingertips.

The outcome of your Greater Serbian hegemonic policy is the unseen suffering of the people of this unfortunate country,

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

We absolutely do not see this in ideological terms, nor are we aligning ourselves with any particular individual person, nor are we taking the stance because of some selfish interest of our own.

Serbia needs to maintain its peace and stability, to continue on the road of recovery and economic development and maintain the course of reforms, ... I hope these elections will confirm this.

The war which is being conducted against this country is now being conducted with (Western) money.

The Kosovo heroism has been inspiring our creativity for 6 centuries, and has been feeding our pride and does not allow us to forget that at one time we were an army great, brave, and proud, one of the few that remained undefeated when losing.

What is at stake here is the freedom of the entire country,

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

has now been forced to admit for the first time that NATO has inflicted casualties on his Serb forces.

should answer for his crimes.

it is its legitimate right to fight against terrorism. ... That right cannot be taken away from our country by any pressure from the outside.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

You're trying to destroy our government.

Citing reports of widespread house-burning and indiscriminate artillery attacks on whole villages, ... campaign of violence going far beyond ... a targeted anti-terrorist operation.

Yugoslavia is ready to accept a civilian mission under a United Nations flag, with Yugoslavia to agree on the composition and the number of countries, with a big corresponding role for Russia,

ethnic and religious hatred as a justification for uprooting and murdering completely innocent, peaceful civilians to pave (his) path to absolute power.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

We have achieved things in that process many times, most notably peace in Bosnia with no Americans injured or wounded.

After Clinton's afternoon calls to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Schroeder, the official said the three were in complete unity ... a path of peace or a path of more conflict.

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

will not give up Kosovo -- even if we are bombed.

He's always been tough to deal with. He's a formidable adversary, and negotiating with him is not a lot of fun. I've done it for a long time.

were a grave crime against the people of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

But Gore added that NATO will back up its demands with force ... does not keep the agreement he entered into.

Prosecutor Geoffrey Nice said Milosevic viewed what was happening from the distance of high political office ... had these crimes committed for him by others.

despite armed provocations by the terrorist groups ... Serbia and Yugoslavia stand firm in their determination for a peaceful solution of the Kosovo problem by political means.

predicated upon an end of the aggression and return of peace.

done nothing to secure basic conditions for holding remotely normal, democratic elections in Kosovo.

It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

There were a series of nonsensical things bandied about here and untruths, and everything about Bosnia-Herzegovina is a pure lie because I was engaged in peace there, not war. Serbia throughout that time waged a policy of peace,

As a pretext for military engagement, genocide carried out by Serbs will be made up... by making it appear a genocide was carried out, an anathema will be placed on the heads of Serbs and measures will be carried out,

Thanks to the nature and contents of this false indictment (the trial) has turned into a farce, pure and simple. However the amount of money is not insignificant. It is not a cheap farce,

I cannot call my next witness. I cannot sit here any longer. Everybody knows I have been coming here with great difficulty.

I consider the decision to be utterly unjust.

Apparently they are monitoring me so that I should not commit suicide. I would never commit suicide. I do not wish to do that to my family and my children,

Cohen told Congress it was grotesque ... when in fact he has caused the displacement of refugees in excess of a million people, where he has sent in 40,000 of his military, paramilitary, police hooded thugs, to savagely kill and slaughter at random on a wholesale basis these innocent people.

Foreign forces will not dare attack us again, unless they try to come here with an invitation from our domestic enemies,

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

From your prosecutors' office a media campaign has been orchestrated as a parallel lynching,

move military troops into areas along the border with Serbia.

I am the moral winner, ... I am proud of everything I did for my people and my country, and everything I did was honest.

strong unity, a high patriotic conscience and determination to endure in the just struggle against the criminal aggressors.

I don't recognize your court.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

The civil war in Croatia between the Serbs and Croats, as well as the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina between Serbs, Croats and Muslims are the consequences of fanning the flames of national hatred outside the borders of Yugoslavia, ... absurd and false.

I see no reason to conduct negotiations with terrorists,

with something that has been fabricated and far from the truth.