As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy