I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

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 preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Love is a longing for giving and receiving.

Methinks love maketh men like Angels.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!

It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it