In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

You're always going to have terrorism.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.