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.

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

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

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

Politics is compromise.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.