As we have said throughout the auction process, we continue to be interested in Daewoo Motor. We regret that Daewoo lost valuable time while its condition continues to deteriorate.

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".

Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these... it might have been.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

I regret having inadvertently given the wrong information,