The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

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.

the inletour friend looks as he didwhen we first knew him, and until I wake I believeI will die of grief, for I knowthat this boy grew into a manwho was a faithful friendwho died.

Because you wear a uniform, a smelly uniform...and so you think you can be rude to me.

I'm afraid of those cows, ' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows, ' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

A stock doesn't know that you own it.