People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections.

Ukraine is a very responsible state and a very responsible part of the Minsk Agreement. We do everything we promise.

We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

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.