You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.