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 moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

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