The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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.

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.

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest.

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.