25 Quotes by Jonathan Powell

The Israeli people are skeptical about the chances of a long-term peace, but if they saw it, they'd grab it. Any Israeli government that wants to be reelected should be interested in a lasting peace.

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.

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

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

9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.