Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

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

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

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.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.