Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I know people are fickle.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

And I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.