Yi So-Yeon Quotes

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

We need dialogue, not confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

In the journey to peace and to reunification, I always emphasize that we are not climbing just one mountain, we are climbing a range of mountains and, of course in this process, we will face a lot of difficulties. However, peace will be settled and the two Koreas will achieve reunification.

I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

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

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

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

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

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.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

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 believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

We have brought you back, I think, Peace with Honor.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.