Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic. ”

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best. ”

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ”

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. ”

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ”

The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad. ”

I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians. ”

I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public. ”

I never wanted this... to be in the public eye. ”

But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren’t that many of us." ”