Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that’s the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
I don’t want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
I haven’t heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I’m listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.