The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

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

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.