The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.