"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

"In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on."

"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

"Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power."