Look, I am very competitive.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.