The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

We want peace, but not at any price.

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.