There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.