"The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business."

"Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense."

"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."

"We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end."

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

"I would rather be right than be President."

"Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents."

"The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government."