Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!

Democracy needs a moral compass.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Enjoy your work so that others may enjoy the results.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

No matter how small, a favor deserves thanks.