It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.