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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

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.

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

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.