Bill Clinton Quotes

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

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

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

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.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

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

One should not maintain a dispute.

Where conflicts are identified, they will be resolved.

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

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

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

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

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

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

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.

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.