My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

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.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging, even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about it.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.