The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building.