To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.