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

I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

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

We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Education, education, education