They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

The big tyrants never face justice.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.