Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. . . . We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends
Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.