Ceasefire Agreements Quotes

Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves

It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.

If the Hamas people had the opportunity, they would kill the maximum number of Israelis, which would be all. And, Israel has the opportunity to kill way more, and they do not.

My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen.

I don't want to do a lot of talking on the military. I want to talk after it's finished, not before it starts.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.

From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.