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

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

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.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.