Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

It takes patience to work with allies and to bring out the best in international organizations.

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

In peace, as there is more time to spare, the leaders are expected to persuade the rank and file, instead of commanding them.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven't been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else's loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

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.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

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

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

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

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.