The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.