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" Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. "

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" Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. "

" Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline. "

" Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver. "

" I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. "

" People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. "

" The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. "

Nuclear Weapons

" Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. "

" I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. "

" I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. "

" By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together. "

" Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. "

" My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism. "

" Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. "

" Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her. "

" In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. "

" But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential. "

" I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. "

" Education is the best economic policy there is. "

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

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

Do The Right Thing

" I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. "

" I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. "

" In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. "

" I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. "

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

" I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in. "

" If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. "

" There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000. "

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

" Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. "