I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.