Physical courage is a great test.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.