Can't win Quote by Elizabeth Warren

“People souldn't be allowed to decide that they wished to remain a hostage”

— Ann Patchett

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

— Ingrid Betancourt

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility…

— Ehud Barak

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

— Anonymous

We are being held hostage by the people we elect.

— Dede Gardner

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think…

— Margaret Mead

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it…

— Terry Waite

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

— Alberto Fujimori

In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a…

— Christopher Voss

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones

“If we give in to the hijackers’ demands and release terrorists,” I said during one of the heated government meetings over the coming week,…

— Shimon Peres

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the…

— Jean Baudrillard