"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."

"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."

"Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it."

"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."