I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.
Yes, I've never inherited a penny!
When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.
People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
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.
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 still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
People know that you can't spend more than you have.
Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally.
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
