It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

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