A few days ago some thought they were going to wipe us off the map. Today the Popular Party is still the great party it has always been.

We have taken a fundamental step today,

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.