Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

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

Education, education, education

There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.