The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

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

Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.