Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of the parents with peace for their children.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.