Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

I don't have any shame.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

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.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.