Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

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.

Focus on exploring your intrinsic strengths, so as not to loose out on the virtues of life.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Because wine means the responsible part of the day is over.

I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.

Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.