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

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.

If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that "we have to obey the international law", that "we have to go back to the Security Council and the United Nations".

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

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