George J. Mitchell Quotes

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.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

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 diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

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

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

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.'

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

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

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

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

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

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

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

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.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

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.