Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

The most important thing a politician can do is try to keep the country glued together.

The chief threats to security come from failed states.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf brought stability to a place that was going to Hell.

Building a state and fostering a national identity take time and good leadership—bold ideas, initiative, and the willingness to compromise.

Being independent caused us nothing but trouble. I do not want Chechnya to be independent from Russia.

We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

Sub-national, ethnic or tribal factions cannot expect to undermine the political unit in which they exist while claiming the privileges of a sovereign nation-state.

Our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

The United States must learn to rebuild states after overturning their regimes.

The wounds of my country will heal after the troubles of anarchy and bloody revolution. The peaceful Canadian will see happiness and liberty on the St. Lawrence. Everything converges towards that end, even the executions; the blood and tears spilled on the altar of liberty today of watering the roots of the tree on which will fly the flag marked with the two stars of the Canadas.

The army is the only power to preserve the [Soviet] Union.

Very significant. My mission is to pacify Ireland.

To exercise self-determination through secession is to blow apart the union, to pit peoples against one another and to sow discord, bloodshed and death. This is precisely the goal of secessionists in all republics.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy..

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

You can’t build a united nation on the basis of revenge.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

To impose justice, stability, and cooperation on oppressed or ungoverned nations is usually a tall order. It is hardly ever done cheaply, especially against nationalist resistance

We hold that without Unity our Republic can never succeed in being independent and valuable for her allies or redoubtable to her foes. Common interest dictates that the whole Batavian nation unite to form an indivisible Republic.