Nikki Haley Quotes

Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

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

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

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

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

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

Peace cannot be unilateral.