Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

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.

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

If the present is left unopened, now, it is closed.

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Well, prepare yourself. I am all kinds of thoughtful this week. I brought you something else.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.