I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.