Mitchell Reiss famous quotes

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Korea #Agreement #Intention

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Play #Done #Matter

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Country #Fashion #President

But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Real #Commitment #Eye

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Thinking #Korea #People

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Country #Korea #Nuclear

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Nuclear #Weapons #Terrorism

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Korea #Different #North Korea

You are either going forward or you are not.
-- Mitchell Reiss

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.