I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.