The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

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.

At one point in time, every friend was a stranger. Love changed that.

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

Getting old is not for sissies.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.