We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.

Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to brotherhood and unity and a feeling of belonging to a single socialist self-managing society. This pleased me greatly.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

No one questioned who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak) we were all one people, that's how it was back then, and I still think it is that way today.

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.