"People are led to ignore their own peril. People are more interested in the features of their next cell phone than in the fact that cell phone towers kill hundreds of millions of birds annually. People are more concerned about the cost of gasoline to operate their SUV than the impact of their SUV on the global climate. People are more worried about the cost of protecting bio-diversity than on the cost of living on a planet with reduced bio-diversity."

"The U.S. Congress has yet to name an independent investigative commission similar to the one conducted by the Sept. 11 commission to examine how the Qur’an-abuse occurred in prisons across Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, and to develop policies to prevent such offensive incidences."

"Afghanistan needs the understanding and the assistance of the international community involved in its reconstruction and recovery as well as a real sense of responsibility from its own leaders in order to be able to reaffirm its identity, while absorbing millions of its returning citizens, who’ve spent sometimes decades - or who were born – abroad. But, I am afraid, it is getting the cooperation from neither of them in this matter."

"One of the few positive side effects of the war in Iraq has been the exposure of the New York Times as an instrument of state propaganda."

"The People of the Book share moral criteria, the basis of the word of God, and the concepts of what is forbidden and what is lawful."

....“Muslim” Pakistan is under pressure to abandon its nuclear programme but Hindu India is promised nuclear cooperation; zionist Israel has several hundred nuclear weapons but there is not even a hint of criticism, while Islamic Iran is threatened with military aggression for operating within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which it is a signatory."

"...anti-Semites and other kinds of racists balk against living together in peace with people of different race or creed. For example, German racists (Nazis) and Jewish racists (Zionists) were opposed to Germans and Jews living together; each side rejected this in the name of their respective race as a degeneration."

"The Bush administration chose this moment to send its new Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, the inveterate spinstress Karen Hughes, on a “listening tour” of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. As she deflected pointed questions with platitudes and promises, her audiences responded with growing incredulity. The credibility gap is felt there, too."