I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

Being a white boxer is like being a republican. No matter how hard you work, you'll always lose because of the Mexicans.

To be rather than to seem.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.