Tony Blair

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

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.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

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.

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

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

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.

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

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.