They won't be free to choose the people they would necessarily want in their government ... There will be a lot of horse-trading going on.

The biggest challenge is to be able to respond to the needs of the population. They've got to be able to provide the basic services. Otherwise, there will be simmering unrest.

This country has gold, timber, diamonds and may have offshore oil.

The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come? And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

A terrible piece of work. Addicted to the media and leaking. A junior minister in Government at best.

In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.