The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.