“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it impl...” — William Hague Quote

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.