Richard Armitage Quotes

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

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.

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

One should not maintain a dispute.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

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

According to the “ripeness theory,” every conflict reaches a point when the parties are tired of confrontation and determine it is in their interest to make peace. With practical steps, principled leadership, and encouragement from the international community, the peace process still represents a win-win for both sides.

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.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.