I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.