Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.