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

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

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

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

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

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

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.