Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.