You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.