Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

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.

If one wishes to elicit a reaction from the elusive species known as 'reservus quietgirlius, ' one must poke.

Joking with somebody's emotions makes you cold person.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.