I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

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.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.