There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

European and American values do not fully coincide.

The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.