Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.

He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia. We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

What I'm going to miss is the competition, being, that's OK, I can watch from the house.

Work cures everything.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own