Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.