Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Interview with The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/n-ram-interviews-sri-lankas-president-mahinda-rajapaksa/article906009.ece, November 23, 2010.
Quoted in DNA-India, "Sri Lankan president Mahindra Rajpaksa seeks more time to deal with the Tamilian issue" http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-sri-lankan-president-mahindra-rajpaksa-seeks-more-time-to-deal-with-the-tamilian-issue-1948078, January 9, 2014.
Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
Interview with The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/n-ram-interviews-sri-lankas-president-mahinda-rajapaksa/article906009.ece, November 23, 2010.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech at Dover, England after arriving from the Congress of Berlin (16 July 1878), quoted in 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July 1878), p. 5.
Maithripala Sirisena (1951) Sri Lankan politician, 7th President of Sri Lanka
Sirisena on improving Sri Lankan reconciliation after the post-war period, quoted on defence.lk, "Austria - Sri Lanka agree to enhance economic cooperation" http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=Austria_Sri_Lanka_agree_to_enhance_economic_cooperation_20160220_02, March 3, 2016.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, Address at San Diego Exposition (1935)
Context: This country seeks no conquest. We have no imperial designs. From day to day and year to year, we are establishing a more perfect assurance of peace with our neighbors. We rejoice especially in the prosperity, the stability and the independence of all of the American Republics. We not only earnestly desire peace, but we are moved by a stern determination to avoid those perils that will endanger our peace with the world.
Hosni Mubarak (1928) 4th president of Egypt
Address at a press conference, as quoted in "Mubarak : Arabs to fight 'scourge of terrorism'" at CNN (3 June 2003) http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/03/mubarak.transcript/index.html
Ralph Steadman book The Joke's Over
Fear And Loathing On The Road To Hollywood, p. 157
The Joke's Over (2006)
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
“We hope the peace will last for twenty years. Then we will be here again.”
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948) Japanese general
To the Sultan of Johore. Quoted in "Key to Japan" - Page 289 - by Willard Price - 1946.
Antonius Subianto Bunjamin (1968) Indonesian catholic priest
Source: Indonesia Church leaders focus on dialogue, communication http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2016/06/09/indonesia_church_leaders_focus_on_dialogue,_communication/en-1235906 (2016)
Moshe Dayan (1915–1981) Israeli military leader and politician
Speaking of the Palestinians, in Mehiro shel Ihud (Revivim, 1985) by Yossi Beilin, p. 42