We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.