One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

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

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.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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

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.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.