Romeo LeBlanc Quotes

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

UN administrators ... think that no problem in the world is too intractable to be solved by negotiation. These mandarins fail to grasp that men with guns do not respect men with nothing but flapping gums ... Just as the US Marine Corps breeds warriors, so the UN’s culture breeds conciliators.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbors.

Since the foolish part of mankind will make wars, from time to time, with each other, not having sense enough otherwise to settle their differences, it certainly becomes the wiser part, who cannot prevent these wars, to alleviate as much as possible the calamities attending them.