Top 25 Kosovo Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Kosovo Quotes from famous people such as Boris Trajkovski, Noam Chomsky, Bill Bradley, Ivica Dacic, Ibrahim Rugova, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.
Boris Trajkovski
The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‘What are the accepted and applicable ‘rules of world order,’ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?’
Noam Chomsky
At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did not count in a unipolar world. We disregarded Russia’s opposition to NATO expansion, the Iraq War, and the U.S.-led military intervention in Serbia for the independence of Kosovo.
Bill Bradley
Serbs can only leave Kosovo.
Ivica Dacic
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Ibrahim Rugova
There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
Ibrahim Rugova
I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It’s a nice little empire – I’m trying to create something so my family can be all right.
Rita Ora
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova
Professionally, I made my first film at 20 in a war zone in Kosovo.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
Atifete Jahjaga
The U.S. actions in Kosovo – carving out an independent state based on ethnicity from within a sovereign nation – provided the precedent for Russia to carve Crimea out of Ukraine.
Bill Bradley
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
Ibrahim Rugova
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.
Slobodan Milosevic
I built Kosovo for 10 years.
Ibrahim Rugova
My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo.
Dua Lipa
I was born in Kosovo and grew up in Switzerland.
Xherdan Shaqiri
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started – where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
Novak Djokovic
The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.
Boris Yeltsin
Maybe if I was born in Kosovo, I might not be where I am now, so I need to thank Switzerland, of course, because I went to school there, learnt to play football there, and started my career there.
Granit Xhaka
An international presence in Serbia’s Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia’s participation, would be acceptable.
Ivica Dacic
I don’t really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
Rita Ora
For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.
Ivica Dacic
But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.
Lord Robertson
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
Gordon Smith
I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate.
Emma Bonino