Gustav Heinemann Quotes

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.

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.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

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

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

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.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

The shortest way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for war.

If France, Germany, and Great Britain – who have often been at war with each other – are now friends, then India, Pakistan, and China could become friends, too.