The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free

I did publish a Bill once called "Common Sense" with a new constitution for Europe called the "Commonwealth of Europe," setting it all out - what it's rights were, how it would work. And I think that that will be where is has to go. But I'm not anti-European, I'm just a democrat, a very committed democrat. I don't see why the hell I should obey a law made by someone I didn't elect and can't remove.

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.