In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

Be a doer and not a critic.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.