Mathias Rust Quotes

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

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 West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

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

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

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.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

Our public dealings with the Russians can hardly lead to any clear and satisfactory results unless they are preceded by preparatory discussions of the most secret and delicate nature.

We have a moral imperative to keep up the search for something better than mutual assured destruction.

The core of detente [with Russia] is the reduction in arms.

Mr. President, we can't advise you properly on what we should seek with the Soviets until we know what we're planning for on our side.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?