That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather when women are empowered when they can speak from the experience of their own lives they often address different previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place we'll have to-in order to increase another place I'm willing to do that.

Beyond reducing individual use one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities so that head teachers can decide what's truly important because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education health environmental protection and veterans' services this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

As women slowly gain power their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds they generally spend more on health nutrition and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

I have to say you know I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and you know want - have their priorities change and want different things.

Like it or not the world evolves priorities change and so do you.

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family and then the business.

We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.