Clare Short Quotes

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

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

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

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

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

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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

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.

Peace is important for Israel.

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.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

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.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

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

How have the past four years served Israel or the Palestinians? We want a solution for the sake of humanity.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired. but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

There will always be somebody opposed to the peace process. The important thing is not to let those people seize the political agenda.

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.