Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.

The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.