For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.