"If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests."

"Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?"

"Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security."

"If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open."

"history, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."

"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."

"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man."

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."