We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it

I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.