John Prescott Quotes

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

War is what happens when language fails.

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Every conflict can be removed.

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

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

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

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

You have to talk to them before you think about bombing them.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.

In all circumstances in the world - even the most difficult circumstances - we need to push for dialogue.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.