You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

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.

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community