58 Quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi

The days and weeks ahead will severely test this new government, and the solution to Iraq's current challenges will take years, not months, to overcome.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

The job is do-able, as long as we set principled but realistic targets, moving toward them with deliberate steps, and if we are not alone as we take them. We will need, in particular, the Security Council to be united behind us, and with us.

Somebody was asking me the other day – President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that’s great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.