“There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers en...” — Jonathan Powell Quote

“There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.”

“You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.”

“I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.”

“I think people look at Jon like he's an uphill battle and this unreachable task and I don't see him like that. I'm not wowed by him. I see a man that I can beat and a person with holes, like any other human, that can be exploited.”

“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”

“It is difficult to say today whether the Battle of Kosovo was a defeat or a victory for the Serbian people, whether thanks to it we fell into slavery or we survived in this slavery.”