I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

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.

I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

The soldier is the army.

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.