Today we have an historic opportunity to make welfare what it was meant to be: a second chance, not a way of life.

I also know that there's an historic opportunity here to change the world.

He described the commission's work as a "historic opportunity lost."

If it does not, then an historic opportunity will have been lost.

Change is the basis of a historic opportunity between us and the Russians.

I hope that you will embrace this as a historic opportunity for change.

It is an historic opportunity which we must not allow to pass by.

Europe's friends must not let this historic opportunity be taken out of their hands.

It is a historic opportunity, a point which has been made several times this morning.

It offers a historic opportunity for Europe as a whole to change its energy policy.