The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

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.

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

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.