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

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

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.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

And everything would be different, different.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Remember, it is only exposed problems that can be resolved.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.