You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

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

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

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