My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.