You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

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

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.