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

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

The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

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.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.