“You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.”

There can be no peace without unity.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.

I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.

We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs.