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 cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

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