What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.