...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research

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.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

You get what you get when you get it.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.