It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Admirer quelqu'un, s'inspirer de son parcours, c'est avant tout grandir et devenir soi.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.

I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.