John Glenn Quotes

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

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

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.

Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek a way for Taiwan and mainland China to interact that is mutually acceptable to both sides. I will not be provocative; there will not be any surprises.