I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

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

The British people are the boss.

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.

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!

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