cameronp’s most recent Quotables

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

why $240? is there any significance to that number?

I always wanted to play in English football and Arsenal and Highbury IS English football to me.

You have to understand that Barcelona is a nation without a state, and Barça is its army.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I'm thinking: 'Where is the intensity?'

I think for us it is important to improve game after game because I think we need to gel and we need the time to make a strong squad.

I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Let's just hope we accidentally build god.

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things that are not worthy of being known.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

It is white reticence, not minority separatism, that is an obstacle to an inclusive national identity; without overcoming this, multicultural nation-building is difficult.

An out-of-date national story alienates new communities, who want to be written into the narrative backwards as well as forward.

Society cannot be reduced to individuals, and so integration must be about bringing new communities, and not just new individuals, into relations of equal respect. This means challenging racism and Islamophobia and so on, not by denying that there are groups in society but by developing positive group identities and adapting customs and institutions that enable that.

Gordon has spotted that what we really fear is the consequence of this rushing tide of turbulence of diversity, which is why he is concentrating on the identity, Britishness, which will form a glue that will keep us together while everything is conspiring to force us apart

There can be no true integration without true equality. But the reverse is also true. The equality of the ghetto is no equality at all.

Our ideal should be one nation of many faces; one culture integrating many faiths and traditions.

Here we have, finally, a speech which recognises that there are more than Islamist forms of extremism. Here we have a speech that acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between two extremes: of Islamism and anti-Muslim fascism. Here we have a speech that criticises minaret and headscarf bans, and asserts that conservative practice of the Islamic faith is not the same as extremism.

The idea that elected governments are the preserve of those of any other faith or culture is insulting and wrong. Muslims believe in democracy just as much as any other faith and, given the chance, show it.

We must pull this up by its roots. Within Britain, we must join up with our Muslims community to take on the extremists. Worldwide, we should confront it everywhere it exists.

This is the battle that must be won, a battle not just about the terrorist methods but their views. Not just their barbaric acts, but their barbaric ideas. Not only what they do but what they think and the thinking they would impose on others.