There are no techniques in politics.
'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.