This mountain settlement was first discovered by Steve…

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public…

— Lillian Wald

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about…

— Gay Talese

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international…

— Mahmoud Abbas

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

— Yitzhak Shamir

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness…

— B. W. Powe

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements…

— Edward Said

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

— Margaret Thatcher

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and…

— Desmond Tutu

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Beyond that is the fear that the United States will end up negotiating and agreeing to a deal with Iran. The Israelis do not…

— Trita Parsi

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

— Nelson A. Miles

We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough…

— Kofi Annan

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

— Criss Jami

Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human…

— Bill Mollison