11/16/91 Margaret Thatcher tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that the biggest lesson from the Cold War is “if you wish for peace, you must be prepared for war.”

11/17/1997 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that in the absence of democracies outside Israel, peace is only possible through deterrence – “Peace Through Strength”

2/26/1965 Dr Martin Luther King Jnr tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that crime is caused by environmental factors like poverty, and it is invidious “to use the tragic results of segregation as an argument for the continuation of it.”

7/2/14 Chinese Minister of Culture Cai Wu tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council why China needs to open to the world, and how China has been open to imported cultures in the past.

Tony Blair tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that Islamic terrorism is not “our fault” and aims to prevent democracy developing in the Middle East.

2/26/1965 Dr Martin Luther King Jnr tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about the disparities in voter registration in the South, and the barriers put up to prevent blacks from registering

9/3/2009 General David Petraeus tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council how counterterrorism needs whole-of-government approach, not just Special Forces

2/22/2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council why Muslims must give up violence, as Christian radicals have learned to do

3/16/14 General Stanley McChrystal talks about the capabilities – and the limits – of the “stunningly good” US Special Forces.

3/20/14 Senator John McCain tells the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that “history shows If you cave into aggressors, it only encourages further aggression.”