If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

I was born a poor black child.

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.