I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.