Tudjman Quotes

#1. I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

Franjo Tudjman

#2. Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#3. You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.

Franjo Tudjman

#4. I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.

Lee Kuan Yew

#5. The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.

Franjo Tudjman

#6. The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed.

Doug Bandow

#7. The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

Franjo Tudjman

#8. Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Bertrand Russell

#9. The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Franjo Tudjman

#10. Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.

Albert Camus

#11. Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years ... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Franjo Tudjman

#12. Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

Franjo Tudjman

#13. I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Franjo Tudjman

#14. If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Franjo Tudjman

#15. His face is transformed from gorgeous into just plain breathtaking.

M. Leighton

#16. He began to work on me with his mouth, making me pant and beg in scant seconds. After coaxing a quick, intense orgasm out of me, he rose.

R.K. Lilley

#17. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

Ed Sheeran

#18. My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

Tamra Davis

#19. The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

Al Gore

#20. Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.

Franjo Tudjman

#21. When you do men's wear, it's less about thinking outside the box than about pushing the walls of the box outward. Men want to be evolutionary, not revolutionary.

John Varvatos

#22. We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

Franjo Tudjman

#23. Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

Franjo Tudjman