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.
Michael HowardTony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
Michael HowardThe important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
Michael HowardPeople 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.
Michael Howard