People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

The class war is over.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.