I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.

Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.