Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

I do believe that if there is some way that we can find a diplomatic way to address the atrocities in Syria, I think that we should move forward with all due speed to make sure that it is something that is credible.

Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.

We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

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've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.

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.

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

Security and peace are not cheap.

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere

The great powers have got to find a way to end this war [the Syrian Revolution] because the refugee problem will not be solved without it.