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

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.

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.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all the mysteries of His Life.