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

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

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

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

Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.