My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.