Harry Reid Quotes

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

We have to deal with it diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must.

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.

We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

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 beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

If there was genuine desire on the Israeli side, even without a solution, it would be possible to solve a large percentage of the problems between Israelis and Palestinians by means of simple statements from the Israelis.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

The United States is committed to the complete and permanent denuclearization of North Korea. So important. China can fix this problem easily and quickly. And I am calling on China and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard. I know one thing about your president: If he works on it hard, it will happen. There's no doubt about it. They know.

President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here.

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.