Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.