The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago and through all that time Jews remained steadfast to it.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.