Benjamin Netanyahu Quotes

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

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

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

I have to fight as if there were no negotiations and negotiate as if there was no war.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

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

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

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

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

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

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

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

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

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

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.