"Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific."

"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

"A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union."

"We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option."

"I don't get involved in record label politics."

"A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!"

"Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader."

"The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai."