I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

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.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.