Dave Matthews Quotes

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Talk brings opponents together.

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

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

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

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.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

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

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

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.

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.

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.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.