Ian Paisley Quotes

I am sick of answering questions about the fucking peace process.

During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!

Sharon is capable of making peace.

I am willing to go anywhere. Israel will be surprised to hear that I am willing to go to the Knesset itself and negotiate with them.

The negotiations required here make the Paris Peace talks seem like a polite school conference.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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

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.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

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

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

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.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

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.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Yasser Arafat was the epitome of gracious Arab hospitality. I must have had 1000 meals with him. The problem was that he could never translate that hospitality to negotiations.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.