I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.