We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
There is no high-carbon future
I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
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