The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace – or at least a genuine peace – the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world’s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

My theory is that security – also against terror – can only be accomplished through global democratization.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don’t want your support until you make your country democratic.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat’s regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

When did America forget that it’s America?

If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don’t say: Let’s stop fighting right now, because you’re not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.