Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

I was nothing more to him than a prison sentence, trapping him inside my walls and persecuting him for a crime he was tricked into committing.

you better learn how to learn better...

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.