A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
Richard HolbrookeThe United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.
Richard HolbrookeIt's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
Richard HolbrookeThere is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.
Richard Holbrooke