Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

The UN is hardly democratic.