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.

If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

I am a pretty straight sort of guy.

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

All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements