I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.