Jacques Chirac Quotes

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

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

All who wish peace ought to unite in the means which may facilitate its attainment.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

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.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

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.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

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

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.