I like beer
The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional.
My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.
If you look at the American army’s counterinsurgency literature…it begins with an analysis of the German experience in Europe, written with the cooperation of Nazi officers…which techniques for controlling resistance worked, which ones didn’t.
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.
Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn’t exist in the world, you know. There’s not one such country anywhere in the world.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today
Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
I will continue – as Labour Leader – to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought – by force of circumstances, not argument – to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.
I am not too happy with terms like ‘the left’, to be honest. And I don’t use it muchÂ….if by ‘the left’ you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
We can win an awful lot of people into the political spectrum, by offering something that is … radical.
