If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

There's a great frustration with the system. There's a lot of anger out there. But in the end, you need answers and not just anger. But anyway, let me not trespass too much into your politics. I've got enough problems in my own politics.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.