Chen Shui-bian Quotes

We will work toward maintaining the status quo for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in order to bring the greatest benefits and well-being to the Taiwanese people.

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.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative; there will not be any surprises.

The old notion: security brings peace. The new notion: peace brings security.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

With a stable peace anything is possible; without peace, nothing is possible.

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

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace is important for Israel.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.