It Is My Hope That I Could

I Have Been Interested In The 12th Century Since My 20s When It Was Very Fashionable To Say Of Anybody With Whom You Disagreed, Which Was Basically Anybody Over The Age Of 30, "one Of The Great Minds Of The 12th Century", And One Day I Thought, "i Don't Know Anything About The 12 Century." So I Started Buying Books, Reading About It, And I Discovered It Was A Period Of Great Flowering, It Was A Renaissance Before What We Think Is The Renaissance, The Italian Renaissance Of The 16th Century.

We Did Not Think That [egyptian President] Nasser Wanted War. The Two Divisions He Sent To Sinai On May 14 Would Not Have Been Sufficient To Launch An Offensive Against Israel. He Knew It And We Knew It.

We Will Not Rest Until We Reach A Permanent Agreement [with The Palestinians] That Would Secure A Safe Future For Our Children And That Would Provide Us With Renewed Hope To Live In A Region Where People Lead A Life Of Co-operation And Not, God Forbid, Where Blood Is Shed.

We'll Fight Terror Like There's No Peace, And Make Peace Like There's No Terror.

I Think The Fact That We Have Been Focussing On Politics Quite A Lot And The Tumult Of Politics Rather Than What We Should Be Doing In Terms Of Policy Has Made, I Think, Voters Quite Grumpy.