We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

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

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

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements