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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I don't go down the road of condemning.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.