Mahmud Abbas Quotes

"We are on the verge of reaching an agreement on this issue."

"I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament."

"Those who perpetrated such acts intend to sabotage what we are doing and prejudice us,"

"I have not asked anybody so far to form the government but we are leading towards contacts and consultations with all the blocs in parliament. Of course, I am going to ask the majority party to form the government."

"I believe that to resolve the conflict, both sides should not be left alone with this imbalance of occupier and occupied."

"So far the elections have gone calmly and smoothly, and I hope that they will be completed without incident."

"We are going to work with the Egyptians to plug the breaches in the barrier along the border ... within two or three days, and to return order in this sector,"

"The constitution gives me explicit and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don't want to use this authority. But everyone should know that by law I have this power in my hands."

"There is still no agreement. We insist that travellers be able to pass through the terminal, and we will resume discussions on this matter once order is reestablished in the sector,"

"after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land."

"There is no agreement until now but there will be an agreement very soon."

"Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival."

"working to promote a culture of peace and to reject violence and eliminate its causes."

"The agreement must be under Egyptian-Palestinian control but the details of entering and leaving must be subject to an international agreement."

"But it will not bring you peace."