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.

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.