You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.