The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.

The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

Try to be as honest as possible.