Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

I think I made the wrong career choice

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.