In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?"

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.