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

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

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.

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

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.

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