Colin Powell Quotes on Violence (28 Quotes)

It is very disturbing that the cycle of violence continues to go upward.

deeply disturbed at this new escalation of the violence.

What I am interested in doing right now ... is bringing an end to the violence, bringing an end to this conflict, because what we need to do is get violence down so we can go forward as quickly as possible to find a political solution.

Chairman Arafat has to act. He has to do a lot more to get the violence under control, to persuade the Palestinian people, all of these Palestinian organizations, that they are destroying the vision of a Palestinian state by violent acts,

Everybody knows what has to be done. The violence has to be brought down,

We ask all others to condemn them and ask all others who have any hope for a peaceful life in the future for the Palestinian people to do everything they can within their power to stop this terror and stop this violence, ... We must keep moving forward. We must find a way through this crisis.

We have a number of things working right now, quietly, to get the situation stabilized and start the violence moving down, rather than up, ... We don't always run out every day with a banner headline, but I can assure you we are hard at work.

ways of talking to the various rebel leaders and is pleased that at least so far they've said they're not interested in violence any more and will put down their arms.

Hopefully a transfer will take place that will then allow Chairman Arafat to have the flexibility needed for movement around the occupied territories so he can take up his responsibilities once again to end the violence, end terrorism and to ... re-create functioning structures within the Palestinian Authority,

Nobody is claiming that the level of violence is down where anybody could say it was either realistic or zero...But at the end of the day it is Mr Sharon who will make that judgment,

The Palestinians must eliminate any doubt once and for all that they accept the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state, ... The Palestinians must end violence, stop incitement and prepare people for hard compromises ahead.

will work hard to end the violence, end the terrorism -- and that will create conditions that will allow us to go forward.

begin restructuring the Palestinian Authority with the principal focus on security and ending terror and violence.

The plan that is out there -- A, B and C -- is the Mitchell report, ... It calls for a cessation of violence and hostility toward one another, it calls for confidence-building measures to restore trust and security cooperation, and it also leads to negotiations on final status.

encouraging both of them to do everything they can to reduce the level of violence.

It is the beginning of a dialogue, but of course, that dialogue cannot get under way until violence is brought down, brought significantly down, ... The United States continues to deplore violence and terrorist action in every manner that we see it, and I just wanted the foreign minister to know of our continued engagement.

We call on both sides to respect the agreements they've signed. For the Palestinians, this includes implementing their commitment to renounce terrorism and violence, to exercise control over all elements of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, and to discipline violators,

We have a plan, ... We have the commitment of leaders. And now we have to execute that plan and keep moving forward and not allow ourselves to be distracted or thrown off point from the promise that's out there with the road map by this surge of violence. We've got to punch our way through it.

In my conversations this afternoon with Arafat we discussed this in considerable detail, ... And he responded to me, he would take every effort he could to end the violence, to give the necessary instructions to speak out against violence.

It's a tragic situation, ... The president is committed to doing everything he can to see that we can get into a process of discussion, which will bring the violence to an end, bring a cease-fire into place and then get into peace discussions.

The road map for Middle East peace, developed by the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union, places obligations and responsibilities on all of the parties, ... We must see the end of terror and the end of violence.

help the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leaders begin to put in place a more effective security structure to keep the violence under control.

We share a deep concern over the mounting violence seen again today, violence which has plagued efforts to find a peaceful, just and lasting solution to this troubled region,

This peace will require from the Palestinians a new and different leadership, new institutions and an end to terror and violence, ... Israel will also be required to make hard choices, including an end to all settlement construction activity.

The meeting is important to make sure that the Arab leadership is behind and supportive of the road map and the president's efforts, and will play their part in assisting the Palestinian Authority in restoring their security organizations and capacity, and speaking out as strongly as I expect the Palestinians to do in denouncing terror and violence and any support that is given to those that practice terror and violence.

We see the continuation of this as follows Complete and utter cessation of terrorist actions, of violence and of incitement, and as soon as complete quiet exists, there will be seven days of trial or tests in order to see how the Palestinian Authority manages to keep its undertakings,

It is a package, and no part of that package can be separated from any other part of the package, ... It begins with the ending of the violence, it begins with a cease-fire, it begins with a cooling-off period where confidence can be restored, where trust can be rebuilt, and where we can take this cooling-off period to collect ourselves for moving to the next phase, quickly, of the Mitchell committee plan -- and that is confidence-building measures.

We want to be sure that the search for peace ... is seen in a broad regional context so that the quest doesn't stand alone in and of itself, ... obviously an increase in violence affects a number of issues throughout the region.