No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt.

You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will come in undefined moments.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.