To be honest, we don't have the financial resources. We don't have any television channels.

We are saying if federalism is going to be approved now, it will mean the destruction of Iraq .

The important thing is that I returned with a great yearning for my people in that small village at the bend of the Nile. For seven years I had longed for them, had dreamed of them, and it was an extraordinary moment when I at last found myself standing amongst them. They rejoiced at having me back and made a great fuss, and it was not long before I felt as though a piece of ice were melting inside of me, as though I were some frozen substance on which the sun had shone - that life warmth of the tribe which I had lost for a time in a land 'whose fishes die of the cold'.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

AIDS makes the system of global apartheid clear. We should be spending money on AIDS, not on war.

He . . . is still [held] in high regard by faith leaders across the U.S.. He's the kind of person who makes an impression on you the very first time you meet him.