Shahid Afridi Quotes

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

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

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.

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.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

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.

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

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

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

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