Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.