It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

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.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

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

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.