I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

It's special - when you start playing, you are aware of names like Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie; you have seen them playing and know what great players they are. So it's fantastic to have a chance to line up with them. I'm really pleased with how that understanding has started off.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

I have a lot of very happy memories of the Olympic Games, and the final against Nigeria and the goal mean an awful lot to me.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.