The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

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...

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

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

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Hello I'm John Morrison and you can bounce a quarter off my abs.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.