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

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

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

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.