If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

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.

A life full of excuses is a life full of regrets

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The curiosity of lazy men is gossip

Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.