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

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.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

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

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

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

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.