I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.