People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

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.

I think I made the wrong career choice

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

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