You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.