Politics is compromise.

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.

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.