Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.