Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Quickness is the essence of the war.