Bashir Assad Quotes

Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

When you look at territorial disputes, there are good arguments on any sides. I think it's important that we don't take sides on legitimacy.

I'm a huge mediator.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks them in the face.

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

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

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

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

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

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Trust-based mediation assumes accumulated and at times intimate knowledge shared by both the mediator and disputants.