I'm thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

One of the best attributes of human beings is that they're adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable. They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on.

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election.

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?