I was very, very impressed by the work the Foundation is doing and by Marc Tanenbaum. Unfortunately I didn't know him, but I was very impressed by what I heard and what I read about him. The money is for you and me. I told him I wasn't joking. Well actually I was teasing him because I believed in everything he said.
Money comes and goes but friends last forever.
And I'm today among friends who are much, much more valuable than any money in this world. Salaam Alekom, Shalom. These words of peace are woven into our cultures. A part of our everyday life in the Middle East. Yet, so many people view our homeland as one in which only hatred and violence and extremism prevail.