Politician

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

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.

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

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Yes, I've never inherited a penny!

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.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

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.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

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.

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

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

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.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

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.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.