Quotes from Yitzhak Rabin

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.

Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Peace has no borders.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

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

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

Give peace a chance.

We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

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

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.