Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

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

The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.