If you want to know what a man wants you to think of him, look at his tie. If you want to know what he thinks of himself look at his shoes.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.