I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.