I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

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

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

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

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.