In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.