Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

We all make mistakes.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?