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.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

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

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

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.