In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
A loan long continued usually confers ownership.
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it o...
If you have no one else, then confer with your knee.
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Rhodey: [to Pepper at Tony's press conference after returning from Afghanistan] What's with the lovin'?
