peacekeeping quotes

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

War is what happens when language fails.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Law is always better than war.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.