Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

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.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.