“But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.”

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill… its purpose is to reach a political goal.

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It’s almost like we have ESPN.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

We are a muslim country. We don’t know something called colonialism and political parties.

No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.