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.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

I like to look at the glass half full.

You're always going to have terrorism.

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.