Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe this is a serious proposition.
I think most people who have dealt with me, think I’m a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.
Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education, and education.
As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could.
It’s not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.
And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can’t, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.
Saddam Hussein’s regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community.
King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.
Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one.
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.
The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.
I don’t think it’s surprising we will have to look for them. I’m confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what’s happened to those weapons because he had them.
Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.
I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.