The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

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.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

It is the truth which is always the hardest to believe.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Tell her we don’t bite.” “I don’t lie to my friends.