They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

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.

Love is a wound, " the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.

I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.

I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

Stubbornness is not firmness.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Man desires, woman is desired.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.