Reuven Rivlin Quotes

lot of the uneasiness among Mexican leaders is because of the unknowns. Well those are to be determined and to be discussed and to be negotiated. At the end of the day, our neighborss aren't going anywhere and neigher are we, and we need to find ways to make it work.

In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.

I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

No country can be expected to make peace with a nation that denies its right to exist.

There shall henceforth be peace and amity between their Majesties the Emperor of Japan and the Emperor of all the Russias, and between their respective States and subjects.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

The only thing I can say to the people of Israel is that I love them and I am a strong ally.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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

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.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.