Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

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