I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

You must show the world that you are a chosen generation

I was born to stand, fight and when all is done to give God the glory for the victories.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

Some people find oil. Others don't.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.