"As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case."

"The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped."

"Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria."

"Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity."

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."

"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."

"The paradox of freedom is that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."