While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.