You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.