It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.