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

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

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe.