So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.