In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.