There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.