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I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.