I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.