Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

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

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

We make war that we may live in peace.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Let my enemies devour each other.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.