We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.