It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.