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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

8 quotes

• “I remember how much I yearned for democracy, when I was a girl growing up in the communist Yugoslavia. How much I wanted to escape the oppression, lack of freedom and lack of individual choice. This is what motivated me to become an exchange student in the US. Upon return, it was even more difficult to tolerate the failed economic policies, the lack of values, of respect, of democratic institutions and inequality before the state and the law. Thus, I joined the moment for an independent Croatia that wanted to become part of the democratic family of nations.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Interview with Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia" in Total Croatia News (24 June 2019)

• “Sports brings people together. People in all of our countries are tired of ideological differences, of going back into the past all the time.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: AP Interview: Croatian leader says Trump, Putin key to peace" in Associated Press (15 July 2018)

• “What I want to do is work together with all my female and male colleagues and work with the media in terms of our substance and not our form. Let us not divide ourselves into men and women.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ITV Good Morning Britain: Kate Garraway DEMANDS to know why Croatia want SOFT Brexit" in Daily Express (7 August 2018)

• “The goals before us — poverty eradication, quality education, inclusion and climate action — cannot be achieved without individual national efforts coupled with our common dedication and action. For its part, Croatia is doing its best to fulfil the goals we have set for ourselves.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Address at 74th session of the UN General Assembly" (24 September 2019)

• “We live in times of great opportunities and serious challenges. We are more interconnected than ever, yet the world remains divided in many ways. Technological developments have enabled our world to become a truly global village. Our citizens have become global citizens and are well-informed and strongly driven by developments around the world. They expect global leadership in these times of rapid change and great complexity and look to all of us for inspiration.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Address at 73rd session of the UN General Assembly" (26 September 2018)

• “I called upon everyone in the spirit of what I've said to refrain from using the term "the Western Balkans." I do know that it won't disappear from the jargon so easily, that it is a technical term that is used by very many institutions and in documents, but I believe that we should clearly start to call this part of Europe, experience it as it -- what it really is, and this is Southeast Europe.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remarks by the Vice President, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, European Council President Donald Tusk, and Slovenian President Borut Pahor in Zagreb, Croatia" (25 November 2015)

• “Croatian coastal areas, one of the world’s cleanest and most wondrous, are at times severely affected by poorly managed waste from our southern, neighbouring countries.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Stop Throwing Waste into Our Oceans, President Says in Her UN Speech" in Total Croatia News (25 September 2019)

• “Small countries like Croatia cannot play a decisive role in combating global threats but can make a significant contribution to world peace and security through stabilizing their own neighborhood and playing a constructive role in multinational structures.”

  Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 1968) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Grabar-Kitarović: Svijet se mijenja velikom brzinom. To donosi nove prilike, ali i izazove" (15 June 2015)