Arab Proverb Quotes

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

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

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

I see myself as a bridge-builder who can understand both sides.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

They put aside the talk of peace and instead acted for peace.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

There's always a way to talk.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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.