When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'

We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

The cross to me is complete nonviolence because Jesus said, "Love your enemy. Do not kill." I realized that I could never kill anyone or hurt anyone, but I was committed to trying to bring about social and political and economic change.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.