I was a hardliner with regard to colonialism, which had occupied Africa and large parts of the world. We were waging an armed struggle, and therefore, one had to be strong. But now, no one asks for weapons but for economic aid, which changes your position.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

I'm not a president. They love me. All my people are with me; they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.