Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

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

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

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed to recognise that the state and public sector can become a vested interest capable of oppression as much as the vested interests of wealth and capital. it was based on a false view of class that became too rigid to explain or illuminate the nature of class division today.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.