The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

The future is in the skies.

It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.