Im not going to give a courtesy gift to a person whos going to win, and Im not going to give a sympathy gift to a person whos going to lose. – Tim Kaine
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat. – Tom Paulin
