“I’m easily entertained.”

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. … There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king.

When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

You’re always going to have terrorism.

Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class.

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

Is Israel going to continue to be ‘Fortress Israel’? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

We’re never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

You never really want anything you can easily have.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.