The church leader recently declared that equal marriage was a symptom of the apocalypse.
Russia's president recently declared that "out-of-control" state companies needed to be reined in.
The Pakistani minister who recently declared that Rushdie's knighthood justified suicide bombings is dangerously mistaken.
The head of Russia's Communists, Gennady Zyuganov, recently declared that Russia has 20 times more murders than the European Union.
José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, recently declared that austerity "has reached its limits in many respects".
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia recently declared that studios offering yoga teacher instruction must be certified.
You would never know that Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, recently declared that "Kuwait got what it deserved".
The black author and essayist Debra J. Dickerson recently declared that "Obama isn't black" in an American racial context.
But Mr Ecclestone recently declared that "Europe is finished", and plans to move Formula One away from its historical heartland to expand into Middle Eastern and Asian markets.
According to pollsters YouGov, 54% of the public recently declared that immigration from Bulgaria and Romania would be "damaging" to the UK.
Insult to injury, MasterCard recently declared that iBill was in "noncompliance" with the credit-card association's chargeback rules, resulting in an assessment of almost $6 million.
