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

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

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.