Quotes

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

[on imprisoned Kurdish labor leader Abdullah Ocalan] Persuading enemies that there are alternative ways to resolve long-standing differences takes patience and a willingness to engage in dialogue, but most important it requires leadership. Ocalan has demonstrated that leadership. Despite incarceration he has forged a roadmap to peace that commits the Kurdish people to democracy and freedom and tolerance. I commend him for his leadership and vision and urge the Turkish government to release him.