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.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

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.

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

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

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.