NOTABLE AND QUOTABLE

“I think the moment is now for us to act on what we all know to be the truth, which is each side is going to have to make some difficult compromises.”

President Barack Obama

In Germany pushing anew for a two-state solution to the longtime Israeli-Palestinian standoff.

“French authorities have been saying for several days that we have to be extremely prudent. Our planes and naval ships have seen nothing.”

Dominique Bussereau

French Transportation minister, to RTL radio after the Brazilian air force announced that a helicopter plucked an airplane cargo pallet from the Atlantic that came from a doomed Air France flight, but then said later that it was not from the Airbus jet.