Coalition will come sooner or later, I’m certain of that.

I’ve had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

At the next election he’ll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s heads.

Maybe it’s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven’t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

I don’t think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

We have invented a new human right here – the right to return home after a war.

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries – these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

Bosnia is under my skin. It’s the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

It’s not my job to be popular. I’m goal-driven; my job is to get results.