Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.