Bernard Kouchner Quotations

I was not a typical international civil servant I confess -- ask the Kosovo Albanians, ask the Serbs,

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

To manage a non-governmental organization is certainly worse than managing a firm,

Let's talk about the future, not about the past. Next time I will be sure that they will not tell me that there is a Serb side and an Albanian side. Here's a hospital that will reach through this bridge.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting, ... They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.

Chirac seems completely out of the loop. It's all very strange. As a doctor, I can't say whether he's in bad physical shape. But as a citizen, I can say he looks weaker and weaker.