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Water will be more important than oil this century

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.