Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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.