Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

You've been doing something bad since the moment you met me, lass.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do.

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.