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.

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.

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 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 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.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

We are not here to fear, we are here to hope and dreams to win the world.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.