In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.