If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

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.

I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.