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.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

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.

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

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

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.