We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Be disciplined and prudent in the way you manage your time

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.