I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

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

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.