Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

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

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

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.