We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

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

I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.