Podium

Peter Heath: 'We can create public spaces which people respect'

Published: 13 January 2006

From a presentation by the architect and town planner, delivered to the environmental campaigns organisation Encams, at the Houses of Parliament

Martin Scorsese: 'Making a film is for me a journey of learning and re-education'

Published: 12 January 2006

From a lecture by the film-maker on being awarded an honorary doctorate by the literature faculty of the University of Bologna

Samuel Alito: 'I have often asked myself: How in the world did I get here?'

Published: 11 January 2006

From the opening statement by the Federal Appeals Court judge to the US Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court

Lord Oxburgh: 'High fuel prices are not a danger, they are the best news'

Published: 10 January 2006

From a contribution by the former chairman of Shell to a round table discussion at the Royal Society of Arts, in London

Bill Gates: 'What the revolution in computer software means'

Published: 09 January 2006

From a speech by the chairman and chief software architect of the Microsoft Corporation, to the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Dick Cheney: 'Our duty to uphold the law admits no exceptions in wartime'

Published: 06 January 2006

From a speech by the Vice President of the United States on Iraq and the war on terror to the Heritage Foundation in Washington

David Cameron: 'My personal commitment to the NHS'

Published: 05 January 2006

From a speech by the leader of the Conservative Party, delivered at the King's Fund in London

Gerry Adams: 'The time for excuses in Northern Ireland is over'

Published: 04 January 2006

A statement made by the West Belfast member of Parliament and President of Sinn Fein in Belfast yesterday, on the prospects of restoring devolved government in Northern Ireland

Chen Shui-Bian: 'Taiwan must assert its right to its own national identity'

Published: 03 January 2006

Taken from the New Year message by the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

Benedict XVI: 'Peace on earth requires nations to disarm'

Published: 02 January 2006

From His Holiness the Pope's first New Year message for the celebration of the World Day of Peace

Charles Kennedy: 'Inequality is worse now than it was under Thatcher'

Published: 30 December 2005

From a New Year address by the leader of the Liberal Democrats

Andrew Steer: 'The second anniversary of the tsunami will count more'

Published: 29 December 2005

From a speech on tsunami recovery, by the World Bank's country director for Indonesia, given in Washington DC

Brendan Barber: 'Directors are keen to tighten every belt but their own'

Published: 28 December 2005

From a New Year message by the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress

Rowan Williams 'The vilest offender is deserving of compassion'

Published: 27 December 2005

From the Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas sermon, delivered at Canterbury Cathedral

Pope Benedict XVI: 'Signs of Middle East hope need to be confirmed by action'

Published: 26 December 2005

From the Catholic pontiff's first Christmas 'Urbi et Orbi' message to the world, delivered at St Peter's Square in Rome

Kofi Annan: 'I want to hand over a UN fit for the tasks it must take on'

Published: 23 December 2005

From remarks by the Secretary General of the United Nations at his end-of-the-year press conference, held at UN headquarters in New York City

John E Jones III: 'Intelligent Design may be true, but it is not science'

Published: 22 December 2005

From the judgment issued by the US District judge, on the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools, given at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

John Bird: 'We are living in an age of giving, but also in an age of taking'

Published: 21 December 2005

From the Politeia Christmas Address, by the founder of The Big Issue, delivered at the think-tank's headquarters in central London

Charles Kennedy: 'Cameron has learnt all the wrong lessons from New Labour'

Published: 20 December 2005

From a speech by the leader of the Liberal Democrats to an audience of environmental charities, delivered at Portcullis House, in Westminster

George Bush: 'The people expect me to do everything in my power to protect them'

Published: 19 December 2005

From a radio broadcast by the President of the United States, addressing the revelation that he has authorised spying on the communications of US citizens