Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica

At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.

Franjo Tudjman
Franjo Tudjman

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Granit Xhaka
Granit Xhaka

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Ivica Dacic
Ivica Dacic

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.

Sean Lock
Sean Lock

Real men will eat anything I mean anything. I think the only food I have ever turned down was a boiled goat's head while hitch-hiking in Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

Stjepan Mesic
Stjepan Mesic

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Tea Obreht
Tea Obreht

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.