Javier Solana People Quotations

Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.

NATO is ready for its new mission -- a mission to bring people back to their homes and to build a lasting and just peace in Kosovo,

I got the impression from the government that they don't see any basic difficulties in parliament ... Parliament is is recess but people continue to work on the law.

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

People in the Muslim world are starting to feel this is a new September 11 against them.

I would like to repeat it: the respect for the people that belong to this land is total. The respect to any religion is total.

I would like to express very clearly that the European Union people do respect the countries of this part of the world and don't want to offend anybody.

We have been talking today on how we can send a message to the people in both communities, the Islamic and European, that we need this not to happen again...We strongly hope that people will be now sensible to understand that.

With him Kosovo has lost a historic leader who devoted his life to protecting and promoting the rights of the people of Kosovo.

What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.

Every European, every democratic person, has to condemn these people who wanted to interfere with an electoral campaign, producing suffering for hundreds of people, leaving families broken, without any objective.

I want to congratulate the Iraqi people who have shown courage and determination in voting today,

In forcing people to leave, the Bosnian Serb authorities have behaved abominably, and the actions of the Federation authorities have been far from reassuring,

But in order for it to happen there has to be an urgent change of direction to deliver the peace, democracy and other civil liberties that the people of Nepal want and need.

I do hope very much (the winners) will be people who look to the future and not to the past,

The EU needs to ensure that the delivery of humanitarian and reconstruction aid comes closer to matching the expectations of the people of the regions.

The French people have expressed their choice. They have ultimately preferred not to support the Treaty establishing the European Constitution. I evidently respect their choice, but I also regret it an equal measure of sincerity. Europe needs its people, but each one of us also needs her. Europe is, above all, a venture of hope.