Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs...The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.