diplomacy efforts Quotes

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

When I made my first trip to Israel as a member of Congress, not only did I meet with the Israeli president and prime minister, but I also traveled to Ramallah to meet with the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. That's what being a member of Congress is about.

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

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

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.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.