Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

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

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

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.