Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Politics is compromise.

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

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.