The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

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.

I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.

Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.