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

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

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.

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

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.