"For any leader to be effective he must have his own team, chosen on merit and loyalty. For political purposes and particularly in third world democracies, the PM has to compromise and take for his team players that may not be his first, second or even last choice."

"This is Ronald Reagan’s real legacy: More state and federal prisons; a national debt running into the trillions of dollars; a crazed crack-cocaine- addicted population that terrorizes our cites; an imperial America, with military bases circulating the globe; a fragile environment open to further exploitation; an educational system in shambles; and, a political philosophy that reeks of a criminally negligent indifference to human suffering."

"President Bush' associates and collaborators have tried to shield the President from accountability for the various atrocities and war crimes and evil misdeeds carried out in his "War on Terror" by blaming subordinates, usually at the lowest possible level. But the more we learn, the more we see how the compassionate conservative wages war and then tries to hide from accountability."

"The lessons for Darfur are clear. The conflict in Darfur has already become mired in propaganda claims and counter-claims very similar to the ones outlined above."

"To be a good Jew in the eyes of the Lobby, one must not only support Israel and the zionist cause, but also endorse hatred, bigotry and wanton cruelty, or at least tolerate them in silence. This is something Jilian Redford would not do."

"Intelligence agencies do succeed at certain kinds of tasks, but they are not necessarily tasks sensible people want done in a free society."

"When one gets past the flag-waving and the glorification of war, a reasonable question should be asked, but only gets asked by the minority -- can't we find a better way of resolving conflicts than by fighting wars? Can't we build peace and prosperity for its own sake?"

"If the violation of women’s rights as defined by the West had been the real motivation for their propaganda, then one would have seen the consistent application of that principle. Yet, when non-Islamic societies including the West violate the same notion of women’s rights there is never a coordinated campaign against their fundamental values but rather such incidences no matter how numerous are often portrayed as isolated occurrences. Hence, the ulterior motive in raising women’s rights is not to seek for the betterment of womankind but rather to use it to discredit and attack Islamic values and other rival ideologies."