I want to be optimistic because I don’t think man is intrinsically violent.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he’s religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

They're alive and they're not having nervous breakdowns, they're obviously speaking quite sensibly, even though we don't know what they're saying.

They have done negotiations but never with abolition in mind in fact we are making more nuclear weapons here, the Americans, the Russians, the French, the Chinese are probably the same.

We know the people who have got them are still trying to get some negotiating position from them and they haven't put a deadline. I am hopeful.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.