I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

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.

She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.

Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.