One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

It took Austria a long time to be honest about its past.

What every generation must do is try to make Europe better than it was in the past.

Our national focus will be security, with the goal of 'a Europe that protects.'

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.