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

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?