Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

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.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

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.

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.

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

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

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.