Daniel Ortega Quotes

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Diplomacy, when matched by force, can achieve our objectives.

The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.

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

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Law is always better than war.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

War is failure of diplomacy.