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

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

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.