Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

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

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.'

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.