Sheila Jackson Lee Quotes

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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

Since the start of the Abe administration, we resumed peace treaty negotiations with Russia, which had lapsed during the three years of the Democratic Party of Japan administration.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

I don't recall anyone who was strongly against except one man, and that was the President [JFK]. The President just didn't want to be convinced that this was the right thing to do.... It was really the President's personal conviction that U.S. ground troops shouldn't go in.

Suppose another war on a huge scale is threatened, how can it be averted by recognizing and patching up treaties with a Power which makes not the least secret--and the frankness of the actual Soviet leaders we must admit--of its desire and intention to smash our whole system of civilization, including Christianity.

While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.

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 methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

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

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.