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" I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation. "

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You

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People

" People either leave or they stay. "

" I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is. "

" Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent. "

" We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. "

" One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. "

" The whole world is out of step, apart from me. "

Mark Thomas

World

Apart

" Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have. "

" The only deadline is the one I give myself. "

" I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes. "

" We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them. "

" Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire? "

Mark Thomas

Military

Soldiers

" People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job. "

" The law is immoral. "

Mark Thomas

Law

Immoral

" I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult. "