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I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

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You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

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Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

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There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

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When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.

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If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

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You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.

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I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

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Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases.

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The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Diplomat

Born: August 14th, 1956

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