I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

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

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.