Al Hunt Quotes

Recesses [in negotiations] allow positions to become entrenched.

One problem can stop a whole agreement.

We are making remarkable progress toward an agreement—and toward a nervous breakdown. It's going to be a race to see which we achieve first.

It is a stalemate in our favor.

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Conflict does not lead to stability in the world.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

Both sides think that they have a good chance of winning. That’s the recipe for a long war.

In Washington the word “compromise” has come to mean “surrender.” You just can’t do it

War is never a good environment in which to run.

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

The future is Afghanistan.

When you show no willingness to compromise, then nothing ever happens.

Sometimes, there isn't any way to compromise." - Eclipse, page 607

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.

We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won