No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.