Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

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

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.