There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

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

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.