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

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.

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.

When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

God wants to bless His church by blessing His people.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

Next year I want to be better than this season, and the year after that, better than the year before.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

I dream of a Digital India where cyber security becomes an integral part of our National Security.

Everything that you want, you are already that.