Negotiated Settlement Quotes

I have agreed with General Houston for an armistice until matters can be so regulated that the war will cease forever.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.

This is eventually how Syria will be resolved - through a political settlement.

An armistice—a cessation of hostilities—is the end of the struggle, and the insurgents would be in peaceable possession of all that has been struggled for.

Talks are not the same thing as agreements.

Patched-up diplomatic solutions designed to answer the needs of the moment rarely last, and as they unravel they can actually make things worse.

Since negotiation would have to take place after the war, why not have negotiations before and instead of the war.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

“Consensus” … is only another way of describing the issues that have been taken off the table.

To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

The political equivalent of an immaculate conception: a [legislative] compromise that materializes without any politician having to take the blame.

If you think you can’t pay, come in and discuss it with us and we have a number of options we might use.

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

Аt the end of the day, unless Iran and Russia want to have a rump Allawite state and a rump Sunni state, and a Kurdish state, then they're going to have to come to the table and bring about an end to this regime.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

In a bankruptcy, everyone around the table has an interest in making the workers take a haircut. The more the workers take a haircut, the more money there is for the bondholders and stockholders.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify.