It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

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.

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.

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

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

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