What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.