The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

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 was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

Music has the power to unite us. It proves that by working together, we can create something truly beautiful.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.