Skip to content

"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

— Richard Holbrooke To End a War (1998)

Another quote →

More quotes by Richard Holbrooke

You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.

To conservative Americans, he was anathema, an American turncoat. To Greeks, both those who followed him and those who hated him, he was the dominant political figure of the era.

All Richard Holbrooke quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Holbrooke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.