If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.