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...GB: President Bush is the elected leader of the American people. I was pleased to have a chance to talk to him. It was on an informal basis and obviously we discussed some issues, but obviously just some issues in the short time that we had available to us. But I was pleased to have the chance to talk to him and, of course, I have over the years worked with different Administrations in America - with Robert Rubin and Larry Summers as Treasury Secretaries, with Paul O'Neill and John Snow and now Hank Paulson - and I think with both...
...GB: I take responsibility, as does the whole of the cabinet, for decisions we made on Iraq. There will be no sense in which we seek to walk away from decisions we made. We made the decisions because we believed the collective security of the world required resolutions passed by the United Nations over 10 years to be upheld. And, of course, there are lessons that we've got to learn...
...GB: I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European...
...GB: We need a global manifesto, a new agenda for globalization that the advanced industrial nations can share with the poorer countries. The trade talks illustrate a bigger issue. You've got to put the case for globalization in the sense that with open markets and flexibility and free trade you give people the chance to benefit from a global economy, but you've also got to show - and this is where sometimes the debate has fallen down - that you will help people get the skills and education and infrastructure to benefit from globalization. Globalization can be a force...
...GB: Britain can and will be one of the great global success stories of the 21st century. The reason is that the advantages and assets a country needs to be successful in a modern global economy are these: you've got to be open, and we're probably the most open economy in the world. We pioneered free trade in the 19th century. We believe in it still in the 21st century. And we are internationalist. Our global reach is to every continent. We also understand the importance of science and technology. We've doubled our science budget because...