The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

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

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.