Warren Christopher Quotes

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

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

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We seek no wider war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

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.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

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