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

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

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.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.