“Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council...” — Benjamin Netanyahu Quote

Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.

Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town Council.

We lived in the top-floor council flat, the same level as the flyovers going past the window. I loved it. I used to imagine who the people were, what they were doing, what their lives were like.

I grew up moving from one council flat to another and finished up in a three-bedroom semi-detached on a council estate in Cranford, a suburb of Hounslow. This was in the days when there was still rationing, and we had to be thrifty.