In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

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.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

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

What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.