As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.