Patricia Hewitt

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.