We want to live, love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors day in and day out to create this peaceful society.

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.

Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.

We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.