At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

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.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.