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.

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

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.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.