I understand there is a need for a stable and orderly transition to that leadership, but that people should give me the space to ensure that happens and that this debate is not best conducted in the pages of the Mail on Sunday.

Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to d…

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

I fear my own conscience on Africa. I fear the judgement of future generations, where history properly calculates the gravity of the suffering. I fear them ask…

It is easier for eight or nine elderly men to feel their way towards unanimity if they are not compelled to conduct their converging maneuvers under the micros…

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

One cannot take up a leading article in even the foremost papers dealing with foreign relations, without finding it assumed that European governments have the …