The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, theyve tasted freedom, and theres no way back.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.