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.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

The center of the earth is about a million degrees.

Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming!