Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

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