Quotes About Resolution

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Israel is prepared for a compromise. The majority of Israelis understand this compromise will be serious, will be meaningful, and will be painful.

'Wait a Minute,' which I consider my expose, came from a place of someone asking me to make a decision: basically presenting me with an ultimatum and me just feeling the need to just lay it out on the table.

Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.

If I have a problem or am not happy about something, I have to be able to have an honest debate or conversation with somebody.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.