When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down.