The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Science and art or by the same token poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal the purpose of an excursion is the process.

By the general process of epic poetry I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement but an environment a process and a commitment.

Too often in the past U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.