“For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.”

“The United States allegedly presses for democratic change in the region, and when it happens, democracy brings to power anti-US parties.”

“Thirty or forty years from now, the American adventures into the bowels of the Middle East will be forgotten details of a bumbling imperialism. But what...is taking place all along the line will profoundly alter the future of the United States.”

“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.”

“No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.”

“Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.”