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

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

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.

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

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.