Barack Obama Quotes

We do not want war with Iran.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.

The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.

President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

Disarmament requires trust.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

War is failure of diplomacy.

In times of peace the stakes of our debate appear small.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

I am willing to go anywhere. Israel will be surprised to hear that I am willing to go to the Knesset itself and negotiate with them.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.