In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.

If everybody knows what his or her duty is then we will be more beneficial to our country. Everyone should know his or her place and duty, and fulfill what he or she is obliged to do thereby.

Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.