Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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.

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.

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

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

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

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.