Jill Stein Quotes

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

I'm a huge mediator.

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

We are all mediators, translators.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

I was weary of being a messenger, negotiator, manipulator and middleman.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

If after negotiations there are still some differences outstanding between us, the differences will be adjusted by arms.

Talk brings opponents together.

It is impossible for either nations or individuals, in the management of a dispute, to have the benefit of two opposite chances. They may be, from the first, moderate, pacific, magnanimous; they will thus secure certain advantages, and they will lose possible advantages. They may, on the contrary, be haughty, warlike, and selfish ; their chances and advantages will then be the reverse of the former. It is impossible to unite the two.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.