"Iraq has WMDs. It is not something we think, it is something we know. Iraq has itself admitted that it has had mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, but Saddam won't disclose. He won't tell us where and how these weapons have been destroyed. We know this from the UN inspectors, so there is no doubt in my mind."

“It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.”

“I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.”

“That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.”

“I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.”

“The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters – the core – is left.”