There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.