The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

Without a moral compass the human mind will justify anything.

Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're looking at something very closely, and you try to write in a meticulous way about it.

When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.

I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

LGBT Americans are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship - that includes marriage.

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Theres nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times its sent away.

He who flees will fight again.

The crabby little girls of today are the crabby old women of tomorrow

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.