NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

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.

She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other.

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I would rather be fooled than not believe.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.