No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

All my life I have been a nomad.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.