Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

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.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

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.

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

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.