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.

Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

I do believe that if you reach a just and fair settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians it will have a massive influence on countering extremism. Which is not to say that the Israel-Palestinian situation is the source of the problem, but it is very potent fuel.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.