People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

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.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.