I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? 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. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

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

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

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

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.