We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.