Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

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.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.