Everything about my politics has been about the future.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.

no matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event, nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Speak low, if you speak love.