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?

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

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 described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.