The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.