At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.