Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.