Chester A. Crocker Quotes

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Talk brings opponents together.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

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

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.