What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.