I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.

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

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.