I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.

I am blunt when I want to be.

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.