Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.