When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

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.

You are a product of the stories you believe and accept.

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.