Albania Quotes

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time.

As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.