Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you’ve shown up.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don’t go with prescriptions.

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it’s never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you’ve missed something.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.