Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.

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.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.