Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.