A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.

Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.