Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

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.

I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.

You are no stronger than your belief system.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.