Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.