Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

Our problem with Israel is that its leaders always talk about war and security but never about peace.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.