Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.