Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.