The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

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.

A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood"~Violence(Maddox)

We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

Even if I built a 50,000-seater stadium and bought Ronaldinho, there'd still be complaints about crap hotdogs.