Nine days of headlines should not obscure nine years of achievements. When you are in government you have to take the hard decisions and sometimes you make mistakes.

The idea will be to have a broad-based government and then next year, to move to a new constitution, and then finally to democratic elections ... so who's going to end up governing Iraq ultimately? It's going to be the Iraqi people with a democratic constitution,

It's got to be absolutely clear that people who are going to serve in the government of Northern Ireland have got to have given up violence for good,

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.