We're not stopping people from taking part - we'll work around that as best we can. We respect the rights of our people. We're trying to balance them against an obligation to customers and shareholders.

It's not about taking away rights from gays and lesbians as much as it is denying the best opportunity for family and children. By injecting children into the argument, they don't have the same strength they had.

The budget is not being cut at all. We're stopping the overspending that has been taking place in the department.

Individuals are not skilled in setting the boundaries between work and home (and) colleagues fail to respect other's rights to free time.

We're a democratic country, respectful of human rights, that is threatened by wild people who have no respect for human rights, who blow up buses, who blow up airplanes, who can blow up entire buildings,

We respect the rights of people to express their opinions. We ask that while they express those opinions they behave themselves.