We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.