Dalia Mogahed Quotes

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I think the blood is spilling in Syria and it's mostly Muslims.

I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

I hate this idea that we, as Americans, are going to say we're going to have a sense at the border, someplace else, that - to figure out whether or not Muslims can come to the United States.

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have a much more assimilated Muslim population here than they do in Europe."

There are many other [then ISIS] terrorist organizations. And their primary victims are Muslims. I think that's very important.

If you want to beat Donald Trump - then you need to be the candidate that is not the establishment in your thinking, in the way you're presenting yourself.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.

I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.