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

Politics is compromise.

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.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

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.