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.

As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

My teachers used to call me a failure

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

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

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.