Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace..

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and le….

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a colle….

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others..

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

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git..

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an ang….

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices..

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy..

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes….

Truth and reconciliation' are always combined, but I would split them: I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready f….

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 ….

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society..

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war..

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results..

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radic….

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregu….

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

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' br….

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No..

History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do….