I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term – a century-long – error by Europe.
It’s not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.
Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you’ve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
I know people are fickle.
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.
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.
For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.
I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don’t agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
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.
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?
A generation of children has been betrayed.
Elected presidents are for countries.