The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.