I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

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.

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.

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.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.