People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.