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

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

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

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.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

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.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.