"Honest and sincere people contribute in guaranteeing conviviality, freedom and stability. Religious teachings help in promoting and reinforcing ethics, respect, nobility, generosity, modesty, love and rightness."

"Islam and Christianity do not contradict each other, but they meet in high values to achieve significant benefits for the world."

"There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency. He is faithful to his religion and to Jihad for the elevation of the word of Allah...This man has a pure, honest and believing personality. He defends all that belongs to Islam and who renounces anything that is not Islamic."

"We are facing someone [Iran] who has an army, money, and a political plan for the Arab Islamic Middle East."

"I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom."

"It is time for us to put an end to our fear for which we paid a very heavy price, to face all the lies of the Syrian security regime."

"You must realize that many Lebanese are not at ease either with Syrian policy in Lebanon or with the presence of Syrian troops in our country."

"We are on the edge of a new era. It can be something completely positive for Lebanon, and it can be something completely dark for Lebanon. … That's why we are really at a turning point where anything can happen."

"Don't think it is easy for anyone to be forced to live abroad, far from his country, colleagues, wife and children. But sometimes I think, maybe if I am far away I will spare them difficulties and problems. I would transfer the danger to somewhere else and I would not involve those I love."

"Yes, there may be other attacks and assassination attempts. One of us may pay the price. Anyway, hopefully it will be us, not anyone else."

"The Lebanese security authorities and the remnants of the Syrian system in Lebanon, and directly the Syrian regime from top to bottom, is responsible for every crime and every drop of blood spilled."

"The Syrian security regime should know … that despotic regimes and tyrants who committed massacres against humanity were pursued, prosecuted and collapsed."

"Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians)."

"They were long, dark, black years."

"I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions."

"You have come out of the big prison which you had been put in and you have taken me out with the same act from the small prison which I had been put in."

"I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom."