The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

Backs dialogue for solving disputes and not military power and threats.

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration.

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

Between the world we seeand the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.

terrorism n.Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.