One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.