Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Elected presidents are for countries.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.