We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

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.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white

I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

Never quit. Never give up.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.