Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.