Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.