We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.