Podium
Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Without atonement, there can be no redemption'
Published: 14 December 2005
From a statement by the governor of California, in which he explains why he declined to spare Stanley 'Tookie' Williams from the death penalty
Thomas Matussek: 'Language skills are good for firms and for individuals'
Published: 13 December 2005
From a speech by the German Ambassador, delivered at the Conference on Languages for Competitive Advantage, held in Birmingham
Mohamed Elbaradei 'Make nuclear weapons a taboo, like slavery'
Published: 12 December 2005
From the acceptance speech delivered at the Nobel awards ceremony in Oslo by the head of the IAEA, winner of the 2005 Peace Prize
George Bush: 'Rebuilding Iraq has not always gone as well as we had hoped'
Published: 09 December 2005
From a speech by the President of the United States to the Council on Foreign Relations, meeting at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC
Michael Griffin: 'Leadership goes to those who fulfil the dreams of mankind'
Published: 08 December 2005
From a speech by the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), to the California Space Authority
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: 'There is now no financial incentive to marry'
Published: 07 December 2005
From the annual Law Reform Lecture, by the former head of the High Court Family Division, delivered at Inner Temple, London
Brenda Hale QC: 'Women's lives are still very different from men's'
Published: 06 December 2005
From the 2005 Longford Lecture, given by the law lord at Church House, Westminster
Francis Maude: 'Reform does not need to depend on one party alone'
Published: 02 December 2005
From the Politeia Autumn Address, delivered by the chairman of the Conservative Party, at the headquarters of the think tank, in London
Robert May: 'The core values of science are under threat'
Published: 01 December 2005
From an annual address to the Royal Society, entitled Threats to Tomorrow's World, by the society's president
Velupillai Prabhakaran: 'Our people are not prepared to be tolerant any longer'
Published: 30 November 2005
From the annual Heroes Day speech by the leader of the Tamil Tigers, broadcast on the Voice of Tigers radio
Howard Davies: 'Central bankers are no longer thought of as sorcerers'
Published: 29 November 2005
From a speech on the future of central banks, given by the director of the London School of Economics, at the Hong Kong Theatre of the LSE, in London
Will Self: 'The soggy wafer of meekness is backed up by air strikes'
Published: 28 November 2005
From the Richard Price Memorial Lecture, given by the author and journalist, at Newington Green Unitarian Church, in London
Bashar Al-Asad: 'They want us without a memory, so they can plan our future'
Published: 25 November 2005
From a speech by the President of Syria, delivered to the students of Damascus University
Victor Yushchenko: 'Our first task is to fight corruption in government'
Published: 24 November 2005
From a speech by the president of Ukraine, given on the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution, in Independence Square, Kiev
Patriarch Bartholemew: 'A creative dynamic can enrich both church and state'
Published: 23 November 2005
From a speech by the Archbishop of Constantinople for the London Hellenic Society, delivered at the London School of Economics
Michael Heseltine: 'Falls from grace are preceded by a blindness to new realities'
Published: 22 November 2005
From the 12th Annual Marketors' Lecture, given by the publisher and politician, at the Cass Business School in London
George Bush: 'We will stay until we have achieved victory'
Published: 21 November 2005
From an address made at Osan Air Base in South Korea, by the US President
Ruth Kelly: 'No one wants to create independent fortresses'
Published: 18 November 2005
From a speech by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, delivered to the New Heads Conference, meeting in London
Sir Ian Blair: 'The public must decide what sort of police it wants'
Published: 17 November 2005
From the 30th Richard Dimbleby Lecture by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police at St Leonard's Church in Shoreditch, east London
Paul Hunt: 'This perverse healthcare subsidy flows from poor to rich countries'
Published: 16 November 2005
From a presentation by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health care, given to the General Assembly, in New York
Conor Gearty: 'To work its moral magic, human rights need certainty'
Published: 15 November 2005
From a Hamlyn lecture, given by the Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, at the London School of Economics
Maleeha Lodhi: 'Pakistan needs the support of the international community'
Published: 14 November 2005
From a speech by the High Commissioner of Pakistan, given to an invited audience at the High Commission, London
Jon Snow: 'What I knew of war was wrapped up in Little Grey Rabbit'
Published: 11 November 2005
From a British Institute of Human Rights lunchtime lecture by the television journalist, given at Somerset House, London
Josep Borrell: 'The EU Constitution will not go away; we will return to it'
Published: 10 November 2005
From an address by the President of the European Parliament, delivered at Chatham House in London
Saskia Sassen: 'Global firms and markets don't want just one global city'
Published: 09 November 2005
From a lecture by the Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, delivered at the London School of Economics
