Deborah Amos Quotes

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

There is nothing democratic about war. It’s a straight dictatorship. The use of force to attain an end desired. We the armed forces of the USA have put a government in the position to dictate the peace. We did not come over here to acquire jurisdiction over either the people or their countries. We came to give them back the right to govern themselves.