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.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

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

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