The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

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.

When you show compassion instead of being judgemental. You will not undergo your own judgement, but you will receive your own love

Not even God can change the past.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

I look really good in a scuba suit.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

You push the button, we do the rest.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.