Michael Ignatieff Quotes

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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.'

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

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

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

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.

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

It is my sacred moral and juridical duty to try to diminish international tensions wherever I can.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

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

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

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

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.