Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

I think I made the wrong career choice

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.