"I am not on trial here, Mr. Chairman. This committee is on trial here before the American people. Let us get that straight."

"During bombing raids in Iraq, the media liked to say that Saddam Hussein used people as human shields. That's not accurate. Although it's true they were used as shields, the fact is they were humans a…"

"There should be no civil war among the Chinese people and no friction across the Taiwan Strait."

"“Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the …"

"Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?"