Desmond Tutu Quotes

Reconstruction requires security and security requires reconstruction.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I am assuming the post of the president in order to preserve and strengthen Ukraine's unity, ensure lasting peace, and guarantee reliable safety.

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.