Michael Mullen Quotes

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

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

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

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Where there is division, there is sin.

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

When we work together and stay focused on getting things dones, we can find common ground and make a real difference in people's lives.