Mia Gray Quotes
I'm sure they can grin and bear it for a week. After all it's for world peace.
Context
During the 1987 U.S. - Russian summit meeting in Washington DC police cracked down to scatter the prostitutes who usually worked the area frequented by the summit participants: a prostitute's advocacy group
Topics
Cooperation
Diplomacy, Diplomats
International Affairs, International Relations
Negotiation, Negotiations, Negotiators
Patience
Suffering
Tolerance
Unity
Coexistence
Conflict Resolution
Endurance
Hardship
Mutual Understanding
Prostitutes
Selflessness
Summit Meeting
Vice
World Peace
Smile, Smiles, Smiling, Grin, Grinning
Compromise
Sacrifice
Foreign Policy
Global Harmony
Citations
Mia Gray, Chairman, Coyote Newsweek, December 21, 1987
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Related Quotes
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.