"...the West and Israel are engaged in military action, they have created a climate, whereby “terrorism” is almost synonymously portrayed with the actions of non-State actors. Hence State terrorism is never a key feature of any discourse on the subject."

"A major flaw of the book is that Manji has a tendency to jump from one story to the other, without rationalizing the need and the context for doing so."

"Although they are classified as weapons of mass destruction, and the US makes much of their terrorist potential, history suggests that the real value of nuclear weapons is in having them as a deterrent. Certainly the Cold War was much cooler than it might have been had one of the two side had an advanage in terms of nuclear weapons."

"Apart from the immorality of U.S. actions, imitating anything Israeli in an Arab country is horrendous public relations, which is likely to make the population even more hostile."

"The mass media has even attempted to attribute crimes to Islamic values and teachings by associating the word “Islam” and/or “Muslims”. Even though such crimes are diametrically opposed to its (Islam) teachings."

“That is not journalism..I also wonder whether your viewers and listeners really think they need to see and hear as much about this story.”

- Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications and Strategy, 10 Downing Street in a confidential letter to Greg Dyke, Director-General of the BBC, 26 June 2003.

“You can crush a man with journalism.”

- William Randolph Hearst

"...guns are only one of America’s weapons; the others are freedom, independence, and women."

"When I came home from three weeks abroad, I went to sleep. I slept a lot for the first few days. One month later, I am still tired. I am tired of the Occupation of Palestine."