When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.