Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

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

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

Be a doer and not a critic.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.