Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.