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

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.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

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

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.