A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives the cost to our budget probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

When the question arose whether I as a member of the royal family should take part in active combat in the Falklands there was no question in her mind and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and if you are looking for answers you'd better choose the question carefully.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools not to establish the truth but to seek it.