Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.

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

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

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.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

Elected presidents are for countries.