William B. Richardson Quotes

I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.

I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

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.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

God does not always give victory to the leaders by means of the sword, nor are such things always accomplished by fighting. But what toil has not procured, words have often effected, and the greatest trophies have been erected by friendly and propitiatory intercourse. Let us therefore not spend our time here uselessly, but endeavor to accomplish something sensible and courageous for our own safety… Let each one of us studiously try to win over the barbarian who guards our respective section.

For the sake of peace you have to accept risk.

Successfully pressuring armed militants to abandon violence and participate in democratic elections requires a favorable political climate. In Northern Ireland and South Africa, armed militants turned away from violence and entered mainstream politics only when the framework of an acceptable political deal was on the table, providing them with a product they could sell to their supporters. The sequence of events was of crucial importance.