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

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.

If there is a political cause, then there has to be a political solution.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.