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.

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

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.

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

I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

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.