I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.