So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always open to let the enemy back down, get off the limb, become reassimilated.

Hold out the olive branch

We're willing to hold out our version of an olive branch.

I think we can extend MILC and do reconciliation in a way that has little or no impact on other important farm bill initiatives I support and have worked hard to protect, ... This important provision has been critical for Minnesota dairy farmers in the past, and I am confident it will be equally important in the future.