I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

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.

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

We reject this illegal, barbarous, savage state that calls itself Israel. And you have to do the same.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.