But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.