You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

LIFE and TIME are the world's best teachers.LIFE teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME teaches us the value of LIFE.

I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

The right man won't care

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

I definitely don't Google my name.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.