What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

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'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

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.

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.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.