I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

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

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.