Diplomat

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Better to be disliked than pitied.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.