It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

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.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

When there happens to be a weapon of mass destruction suspect site in an area that we occupy and if people have time, they'll look at it.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.