Stuart Eizenstat Quotations

What they want is a substantial degree of comfort, ... We're working on trying to provide a necessary degree of comfort.

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

We have in our negotiations today achieved a breakthrough which we hope will lead to meaningful reform in these discriminatory practices,

From now on, the sale, purchase, exchange and display of art from this period will be addressed with greater sensitivity and a higher international standard of responsibility,

There is great concern because the survivors are passing away at a rate of 1 percent a month and we all feel a sense of urgency,

Having an expansion of the 9/11 fund or something very similar is precisely what ought to be done, ... Create an administrative remedy, allow a quick payment.

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

It appears that in practice, the value-added taxes applied to electronically delivered books and newspapers may be higher than those applied to sales of the same physical books and newspapers,

The art world will never be the same in the way it deals with Nazi-confiscated art.

While most countries in the region recognize their obligation to return confiscated property, there remains in some countries a lukewarm commitment to completing quickly the work at hand,

We are closer to an agreement than we were before and both sides have shown flexibility, ... critical stage.

This was an effort in progress for months before the Bank of New York hit the news, ... This is a much broader issue than Russia.

It would create a winner-take-all race to the courthouse,

The Russia delegation, in effect, opened a new chapter in restitution. I am confident that some of the greatest collections in the world will be returned to their rightful owners and a vast storehouse of information about other works will open up.

As painful as it may sometimes be, we must not sweep these issues under the rug of embarrassment, silence and indifference,

This agreement does not end moral responsibility for the Holocaust. Nothing can erase the memory of those who died or the culture and potential achievements lost or the suffering of those who survived.

This is a major achievement which will reverberate through our museums, galleries, auction houses and in the homes and hearts of those families who may now have the chance to have returned what is rightfully theirs.

Swiss banks have taken a number of steps to redress past mistakes and provide assistance to Holocaust survivors.

It's better to take a little more time and do it right,

They want all cases dismissed -- state and federal cases -- and that will take time,

In many cases well past the point where, from the Allied perspective at the time, there was a genuine threat of German attack,