Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.