“My grandmother said, 'Idle hands are the devil's workshop,' ... We want to keep kids busy with positive things. If you don't give them things to do, somebody else will.”
“We're not trying to prove anything, other than what our faith requires us to do. What goes with our faith is to help others, to respond and show compassion when people need it, and I'm glad we can do it.”
“It is critical that the faith community work together to do all that we can to heal the heart and the land, ... This is the real prophetic mission of all faiths. We are truly encouraged by the solidarity and outpouring of support exhibited by those in the faith community.”
“I'm still disturbed that a young person in London whose parents were not extremists put a bomb on himself, ... Somebody got to him. We want to make sure our kids aren't being talked to by extremists. We're not immune from it. There are people within the Muslim community who have extreme religious ideas and are not in sync with mainstream Muslims.”
“These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our precious civil liberties, the things that make this nation great, then indeed the terrorists have won.”
