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

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.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

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

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

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

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.