"You can lose a relationship in a day and it might take you 20 years to repair it.The point is to understand the people who it is hardest to understand. It is easy to talk to people who you might want to have around your dinner table."
— Alastair Crooke

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in "Biden, Netanyahu and America's choice", Middleman in the Middle East, by James Harkin, Financial Times (2 January 2009)