I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.