The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

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.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Who are we to think we deserve anything? What makes us so great? No one is "lucky" to have us. We are all full of it.

She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts

The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie, ' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?